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Progress must be made on all fronts to ease the supply-side challenges that are holding back housing production.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can Congress and the Biden administration do to decrease the under-building gap? Howard requested the following steps to expand access to affordable housing:<br><br><strong>Fix the building materials supply chain. <\/strong>The U.S. must immediately engage with Canada to adopt a new softwood lumber agreement and stop the imposition of harmful tariffs on Canadian lumber that increase prices and price volatility. &#8220;Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has committed to holding a summit of industry stakeholders to examine supply chain issues for lumber and other materials and to explore policy solutions. We look forward to participating in that process,&#8221; said Howard. Lower constructions costs would help lower the under-building gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Improve the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.<\/strong> Congress needs to enact H.R. 2573, the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act. The bill would finance more than 2 million additional multifamily units over the next decade by increasing the amount of credits allocated to each state and expanding the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.nlihc.org\/gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affordable housing<\/a> projects that can be built using private activity bonds. 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