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Scott Bessent: “We have no ability to regulate [housing supply] at the…”

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's America 250 Address: Economic Statecraft, Tariffs, and the Dollar

Published | Video Starts at 54:44

It seems that there's something magic and psychological about that number. But you're right, we have to have a supply solution at the federal level We have no ability to regulate [housing supply] at the federal level. ability to give guidance to push localities, states. I think something that will be important is changing the nature of prefab housing, manufactured housing, the technology in housing, some of it goes back to a lot of the regulations go back to the Chicago Fire. (54:44–54:45)

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Asserts that the federal government lacks the authority to regulate housing supply directly.

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