Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction

The order directs federal agencies to reduce regulatory barriers to building homes and to streamline related permitting and program rules to lower construction and ownership costs. It requires the Army (through Civil Works) and EPA to revise stormwater, wetlands, and Clean Water Act permitting requirements; directs Commerce, HUD, Transportation, and the FHFA to consider eliminating rules that constrain residential development (including EDA density guidelines, DOT’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot, HUD’s Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing, and FHFA chattel lending and low-balance mortgage policies); and instructs Agriculture, HUD, Energy, and FHFA to reform or remove burdensome energy, water-use, and