Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction

This executive order directs the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to review and revise stormwater, wetlands, and Clean Water Act section 404 permitting requirements to reduce housing construction costs, and directs the Secretaries of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Agriculture, and Energy and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to eliminate or reform rules, programs, and energy-efficiency standards that constrain residential development. It also directs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to issue guidance streamlining NEPA and National Historic Preservation Act review for housing projects, directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promulgate regulatory best practices for State and local governments within 60 days, and directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development to align federal incentives with Opportunity Zone and New Markets Tax Credit programs to promote single-family home construction.

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