US faces housing affordability crisis, calls for negotiated end to tariffs on Canadian lumber

By Buddy Hughes, Chairman
The National Association of Home Builders
March 4, 2025
Category: Finance & Economics
Region: Canada, United States

WASHINGTON — Implementing policies to alleviate supply-side bottlenecks that are the main drivers of low housing supply and high home prices would help ease the nation’s housing affordability crisis and allow builders to increase the supply of attainable, affordable housing, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) told Congress. …To help address these issues, NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes called on Congress to take the following actions:

  • Preserve and strengthen key federal programs including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, HUD Section 8 housing voucher programs
  • Support workforce development programs such as Job Corps and pass the CONSTRUCTS Act, legislation
  • Responsibly boost the domestic supply of lumber and call on the Trump administration to negotiate a long-term softwood lumber agreement with Canada that will end lumber tariffs, help stabilize this volatile market and give builders greater price stability
  • Pass the Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Act
  • Rein in excessive regulatory costs and reassert congressional authority over federal agencies’ rulemaking agendas. 

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