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April 9, 2026

A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays for affordable housing

  • Developers are reporting delays, higher costs and hundreds of hours spent figuring out how to comply with the new law.
    • By CHARLOTTE KRAMON
    Associated Press/Report for America

    AP Photo/Patrick Whittle [enlarge]
    An affordable housing development in Biddeford, Maine. A law requiring that most materials in federally funded affordable housing are made in America is fully kicking in, but it is causing issues for developers.

    It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.


     
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