Washington, D.C. — Following a recent announcement from President Donald Trump that he intends to take steps to ban corporate investment in single family homes, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

“President Trump has been talking about housing affordability since the campaign trail, but so far it’s been more talk than action,” said Nidhi Hegde, Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties Project. “If the President is serious about lowering housing costs, he needs more than one-off soundbites and vague pledges. He must back a real ban on corporate investment in single-family homes and require divestitures, not just stop Wall Street from ‘buying more.’ The administration and congressional Republicans must now support existing bills to rein in corporate landlords and make housing more affordable, including the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act of 2025, and this proposal should be revisited in the coming months to see if there has been real follow-through.”

“There is a long list of economic promises President Trump has failed to follow through on,” added Hegde. “From promises to pursue a 10% cap on credit-card rates, to public demands on Apple to manufacture iPhones in America and pledges to rebuild manufacturing domestically more broadly, to household ‘dividend’ checks from tariffs or DOGE ‘savings,’ it’s clear that his rhetoric has outpaced results. We must see concrete action.”

Read Economic Liberties’ paper, Capital Crunch, for more on the housing crisis here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; international trade arrangements that promote balanced trade and benefit workers, farmers and small businesses; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.