Trump Could Declare a National Housing Emergency; Illegal Aliens Booted from Welfare Housing?
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
A housing emergency could soon be declared, which would cut the costs of homes in the United States. The Trump administration is weighing an emergency declaration on housing this fall that would put new homes on the market while also reducing the costs.
In addition to this, deportations and other policies around mass migration are also likely to free up more homes. And on that front, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is now working to ensure that illegal aliens aren’t taking up Section 8 housing.
We’ll discuss these topics and others, in this episode of “Crossroads.”
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | A housing emergency could soon be declared in the United States. President Donald Trump is |
| 0:05.8 | allegedly weighing an emergency declaration on housing this fall that would put new homes on the market |
| 0:11.4 | while also slashing the costs. And on the point of housing, the Department of Housing and Urban |
| 0:17.5 | Development is working to boot illegal aliens from Section 8 housing. |
| 0:22.0 | And on another topic, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just got a brand new tool |
| 0:27.0 | that can let agents hack phones and read private messages. I'll be talking about these topics |
| 0:33.6 | and more today. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome to Crossroads. A housing emergency could soon be declared which would cut the costs of homes in the United States, or at least that is the goal. |
| 0:54.6 | This would put new homes in the market and also reduce the costs of existing homes. |
| 0:59.5 | Now, how might he do that? There are many ways. One of them is mass deportations and other policies |
| 1:04.8 | around mass migration. These are likely going to free up a lot more homes. Let me show you at |
| 1:09.9 | time says. |
| 1:16.1 | It says President Donald Trump is thinking about declaring a national housing emergency in the fall, |
| 1:18.0 | meaning possibly soon. |
| 1:21.1 | It says according to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, and it notes in a Labor Day interview with the Washington Examiner, |
| 1:24.7 | Besson stated the administration is considering a list of measures. |
| 1:29.3 | The bolster supply and cut housing costs. And what does it mean to bolster supply? It means |
| 1:34.7 | you build more homes or you free up existing homes. And cut costs is a lot of ways to do that, |
| 1:41.3 | including they say possible tariff exemptions on construction materials |
| 1:46.6 | like wood or other materials and so on. And as they're also studying tactics to standardize |
| 1:55.4 | local building and zoning codes the finance had said, which would be huge, by the way, because some states are |
| 2:02.9 | crazy with local zoning and building codes. In California, it's very hard to build anything |
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