Trump's Housing Policies Target Wall Street Investors to Boost Affordability
Originally Published 1 day ago — by Business Insider
Institutional investors own a small overall share of US single-family rental homes, but their ownership is heavily concentrated in Southern and Sun Belt cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, where they control significant portions of the rental market. President Trump has proposed banning large institutional investors to make homeownership more affordable, but experts argue that the real issue is a nationwide housing shortage, and that concentration of ownership could lead to higher rents and market power concerns.