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postflopclarity ◴[] No.46208345[source]
build. more. and this problem will go away.
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ryanmcbride ◴[] No.46208466[source]
Not if private equity just snatches it all up.

Yes build more. Also regulate the oligarchs until they no longer exist.

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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.46210472[source]
> Not if private equity just snatches it all up

"As of December 2022, the five largest investors owned about 300,000 homes — just under 2% of single-family rental homes nationally."

Where institutions dominate is in rentals: "institutional investors own roughly 2% to 25% of single-family rentals in major markets" [1];.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/09/09/g-s1-87...