The federal government should remove housing tax benefits for all landowners in cities that refuse to build housing at a necessary pace.
We propose that the federal government use highway funding as a legal mechanism to force states to adopt zoning reform.
The programs meant to create housing abundance have instead created a complex network of paperwork that is redundant, rigid, and discouraging.
The good news is that the tools, data, and proof of concept all exist today; what is needed now is for the federal government to build, or fund the creation of, a National Housing Policy Simulator.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) should designate or hire at least one career staff member to work on housing supply and land use as their primary responsibility.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) could speed the adoption of mass timber through grants that incentivize state and local governments to adopt the latest IBC codes.
Federal clearinghouses should incorporate open science practices into their standards and procedures used to identify evidence-based social programs eligible for federal funding.
To better address security and sustainability of open source software, the United States should establish a Digital Technology Fund through multi-stakeholder participation.
Building on existing data and privacy efforts, the White House and federal science agencies should collaborate to develop and implement clear standards for research data privacy across the data management and sharing life cycle.
The USPTO should incorporate open source hardware certification databases into the library of resources to search for prior art, and create guidelines and training to build agency capacity for evaluating open source prior art.
Federal agencies should take coordinated action to ensure that data sharing policies incentivize high-quality data management and sharing plans.
All agencies that fund research should require that resulting publications include a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) listing the software used in the research.