Top Clinton Advisor Gary Sperling and Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump each addressed the NAHB Board of Directors at their midyear meeting in Miami last week. Both campaigns laid out their plans concerning the housing industry. While both campaigns recognize that the housing industry creates jobs and stimulates the economy better than almost any other industry out there, they each had different strategies for how to approach this issue.

Below are some highlights from both plans.

Neither NAHB or UTCLC endorses any candidate.

Gary Sperling - Clinton Campaign:

• Defend and expand the Low Income Housing Tax Credit.
• Encourage communities to implement land use strategies that make it easier to build affordable rental housing near good jobs by increasing funding for infrastructure banks and competitive grant programs.
• Support common sense relief for community banks and make sure that any reforms level the playing field so that Wall Street banks do not have any advantages over community lenders.
• Focus on a major infrastructure plan in which “she sees construction and housing as part of that larger infrastructure.”

Donald Trump:

• Impose a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations
• Cancel overreaching executive orders
• Create a simplified tax plan which reduces the code to three brackets and ensures that small business will be taxed at no more than 15%

“We are very honored to have these national leaders address our members,” said NAHB Chairman Ed Brady. “Their presence at our board meeting conveys the important role that the nation’s housing industry will play in the upcoming elections and reaffirms that housing must remain a national priority.”