Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ is a ‘Band-Aid’ on America’s housing shortage

President Donald Trump aims to make America affordable again and cut costs for American families.

One of these is the expansion of the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), a giveaway to corporate developers to build expensive housing while increasing the deficit.

Lawmakers across the ideological spectrum recognize that America has a housing shortage caused by supply, not demand.

There is no empirical evidence that illegal immigration has meaningfully increased housing supply through construction labor.

Illegal immigrants are eligible to live in LIHTC-subsidized homes as long as the development does not receive other federal assistance that imposes immigration-related eligibility restrictions.

Cutting the low-income housing tax credit provision out of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would be a win for American families.