Could housing save the US economy from recession?

Performance of $10,000 invested in iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF. (Source: iShares)
The Federal Reserve might be powerless to prevent the negative effects of the trade war from hurting economic growth, but it still has the juice to boost the housing market.
The recent ISM Manufacturing Index report showed that industrial activity in the U.S. plunged in September, the sixth straight monthly decline, to the lowest since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. But the silver lining is that the