To help combat a decline in demand for new homes, homebuilders have reduced building activity to some extent and leaned on incentives such as mortgage buydowns.
The tax credit would cover the difference between the cost of rehabilitation and the price the property fetches in a sale to a buyer with an income well below the area median.
The analysts suggested that President Trump could issue an executive order directing the secretary of the Interior to auction as much as 180 square miles of federal land.