A former Trump administration Treasury official is sounding the alarm about government restrictions on corporate home purchases, warning that such heavy-handed interventions could backfire on American families struggling with the housing crisis.
Michael Faulkender, who served as Deputy Treasury Secretary under President Trump's first term, told Fox Business Network's "The Bottom Line" on Thursday that proposals to restrict companies from buying homes make him "pretty nervous."
While many frustrated Americans blame corporate investors for driving up home prices and squeezing out regular families, Faulkender argues the government is targeting the wrong problem entirely.
"The key is to increase supply," Faulkender emphasized, pointing to the real culprit behind America's housing affordability crisis.
This puts a spotlight on a critical debate within conservative circles: Should the Trump administration use government power to restrict corporate home buying, or focus on free-market solutions that boost housing construction?
Faulkender's concerns reflect a deeper conservative principle - that government restrictions, even well-intentioned ones, often create unintended consequences that hurt the very people they're supposed to help.
The Real Housing Crisis Villains
While corporate investors make easy scapegoats, the true enemies of affordable housing are the bureaucratic red tape, endless environmental reviews, and local zoning restrictions that strangle new construction across America.
For decades, liberal-controlled cities have made it nearly impossible to build new homes through crushing regulations and NIMBY policies. Now some want to solve the problem they created with even more government intervention.
Patriots know that unleashing American builders and developers - not restricting buyers - is the path to housing abundance that benefits working families.
The Trump-Vance administration faces a choice: Will they embrace big government solutions that make bureaucrats feel good, or stick to proven free-market principles that actually work?
What do you think - should government restrict who can buy homes, or focus on removing the barriers that prevent Americans from building them?