Songfacts®:

• Even by Rage Against The Machine standards, "New Millennium Homes" is a very agitating song. The title is a benign reference to housing developments purchased by the well-off (the song is from 1999, near the turn of the Millennium), but the refrains are:
  
  Violence in all hands, embrace it if need be
  and
  A fire in the master's house is set
  
  That last one is a reference to slavery, implying that the working class is basically slave labor for corporations.
• The guitar riff Tom Morello play on the song is similar to the one he came up with on the 1992 RATM song "Know Your Enemy," which has a guest vocal by Maynard James Keenan of Tool.
• The song is part of The Battle Of Los Angeles, the third Rage Against The Machine album. By this time, frontman Zack de la Rocha was quarreling with his bandmates, and he left the group the following year. They tried to replace him but decided to form a new band instead: Audioslave, with lead singer Chris Cornell.