Housing Policy

At Davos, Trump outlined a housing-affordability package that would bar large institutional investors from future purchases of existing single‑family homes (while excluding new construction and not forcing current owners to sell) and direct the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to try to lower borrowing costs. Experts caution the investor ban would touch a small share of stock (large owners hold roughly 1% of single‑family homes), that core supply problems (zoning, land costs and underbuilding) are largely unaddressed, and that cheaper mortgages could boost demand and prices — with estimates suggesting bond buying would only modestly lower rates and many implementation details remain unclear.

Cea Weaver, appointed Jan. 1 by Mayor Mamdani to lead the revived Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, is facing renewed scrutiny after a September 2021 "Bad Faith" podcast in which she said "White, middle-class homeowners are a huge problem" for the renter-justice movement and argued homeownership should be "undermined" to provide stability in other ways. She also deleted a 2019 X post calling private property—especially homeownership—"a weapon of White supremacy," and has since told Spectrum News NY1 she regrets "some" of her past rhetoric while saying she will focus on addressing racial inequalities and ensuring safe, affordable housing; former Mayor Eric Adams publicly condemned her language.