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We will open up portions of federal land for large-scale housing construction. These zones will be ultra-low tax and ultra-low regulation.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

All three sources cited by the prior rater are real and live, and I confirmed them independently: the DOI/HUD Joint Task Force press release (March 17, 2025) is genuine and does commit Interior to identify underutilized federal land for housing and 'reduce the red tape behind land transfers or leases'; the BLM Henderson, Nevada 18.59-acre direct-sale notice is a genuine Federal Register document (2026-05669, published March 24, 2026), confirmed via the federalregister.gov API; and PolitiFact's MAGA-Meter still rates the matching 'deregulated freedom cities on federal land' promise STALLED with a February 10, 2026 update stating Trump has not moved to advance it. However, the prior outcome of PARTIAL is too generous, so I am revising down one step. (1) The single Henderson conveyance cannot fairly be credited to this promise: a Federal Register API query for BLM direct sales of public land for affordable housing returns an unbroken series of essentially identical Nevada notices in 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, January 2023 and July 2024 under the pre-existing Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, i.e. a routine program that ran identically under the prior administration. It is baseline activity, not promise fulfillment, and 18.59 acres is the opposite of 'large-scale.' (2) A Federal Register query for all Interior/BLM documents since January 20, 2025 matching federal land and housing returns exactly one housing item in eighteen months - that same Henderson parcel. There is no rulemaking, no programmatic opening, no acreage release. (3) The 'ultra-low tax and ultra-low regulation zones' half is untouched. Executive Order 14394, 'Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction' (signed March 13, 2026), deregulates housing construction generally via NEPA, Clean Water Act and energy-code changes, but contains no direction to Interior or BLM to make federal land available and creates no new low-tax or deregulated zones - its only tax reference is aligning existing Opportunity Zone incentives. (4) Decisively, the administration's own National Homeownership Month 2026 proclamation (June 18, 2026), which enumerates its housing accomplishments (Fannie/Freddie MBS purchases, the institutional-investor order, antitrust enforcement), makes no claim of having opened federal land for housing - strong evidence nothing at scale exists to claim. Applying the same standard I would apply to either party: a cabinet-level task force aimed squarely at the promise is real, self-initiated engagement, which places this above IGNORED, but nothing landed and half the promise was never engaged at all. That is 'genuinely advanced it, but it did not land' - ATTEMPTED, not PARTIAL. CHAMPIONED is not supportable either, since the effort was announced by cabinet secretaries and produced no measurable output, and PolitiFact affirmatively finds the principal has not moved to advance it.

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