The Federal Government Has a Lot of Unused Land. Can We Sell It Off To Build Houses?

 

(Esri, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Defense, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service)

The biggest landowner in the United States is the federal government, which controls about a quarter of the country's real estate. A lot of that land serves as military installations, national parks, and nature preserves. A lot of it, particularly out West, is sitting unused.