At Connect Apartments 2025 in Los Angeles this week, Real Estate Roundtable (RER) President and CEO Jeffrey DeBoer delivered the keynote Q&A session, outlining top legislative and regulatory priorities in the coming months.

Remarks

• His remarks covered implementation of new tax rules on bonus depreciation and expensing, expansion of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, policies to encourage new housing supply, efforts to enhance energy grid access, and preparation for the scheduled 2027 expiration of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA).

• Recognizing that his remarks came on Sept. 11, DeBoer emphasized the broader role of industry leaders in fostering collective action.

• “For the past 24 years, our industry and its leaders have supported individual, business, and policy actions to respond to and prevent terrorism. Today we face a new reality that also requires a collective response,” he said.

• He continued, “Our personal, social, and political discourse clearly has spiraled in a very dangerous direction. Many are now calling on political leaders to tone down their divisive rhetoric. We agree. But we also strongly believe that political leaders should not act alone. The Real Estate Roundtable, and our leaders, now urge that the millions of people in our industry work to find boundaries to inciteful rhetoric by rejecting actions and language that vilify and denigrate those whose views differ from our own.”

Next Wednesday, the House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee will hold a hearing on "The Reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002." RER will continue to engage on TRIA renewal and related policy issues.