[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