President Donald Trump has a chance to keep his campaign promise to fix the U.S. housing affordability crisis within his administration, housing expert Pete Carroll told Newsweek , but only if he pushes for the right policies in the coming months.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this month announced that the Trump administration would declare a national housing emergency to address skyrocketing home prices and borrowing costs that have pushed homeownership out of the reach of millions. Experts like Carroll think that the declaration—which would follow several issued by Trump since January—might come as soon as the end of September.

The move is legally fraught and politically controversial, with Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton

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