    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 133, 116th Congress, 1st Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Proclamation 9900 of May 31, 2019

    National Homeownership Month, 2019

    By the President of the United States of America

    A Proclamation

    During National Homeownership Month, we acknowledge the benefits of
    sustainable homeownership. Homeownership continues to be an important
    option for many Americans to invest in their communities, build wealth,
    and achieve the American Dream.
    My Administration's economic policies have helped spur a booming
    economy, in which nearly 6 million new jobs have been created and wages
    are rising at the fastest rate in a decade. We have slashed more than
    30,000 pages of job-killing regulations from the rule book that had been
    constraining economic growth, and my Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has put more
    money into the pockets of American workers. These successes have led to
    more opportunities for Americans to become homeowners, and we are
    committed to building on them by continuing to work with State and local
    governments to remove burdensome and unnecessary regulations that
    restrict development and artificially raise housing costs.
    To offer the opportunity for more sustainable homeownership to a greater
    number of Americans, we must also reform our Nation's housing finance
    system. Earlier this year, I signed a Presidential Memorandum
    instructing the Secretaries of the Treasury and Housing and Urban
    Development to construct a plan on reforming the housing finance system
    to promote competition in the housing finance market that will also
    preserve the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage for qualified homebuyers.
    These reforms are critical to improving access to sustainable mortgages
    and to maintaining responsible support for homeownership and for
    building wealth.
    This month, we reaffirm our commitment to empowering more Americans with
    the opportunity to take the important step of becoming homeowners. By
    keeping taxes low, continuing to remove burdensome and unnecessary
    regulations, and making much-needed reforms to the housing finance
    system, we will open doors to sustainable homeownership to more
    Americans and their families.
    NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of
    America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
    the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2019 as National
    Homeownership Month.
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of
    May, in the year of our Lord two thousand nineteen, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
    third.
    DONALD J. TRUMP