The latter is a horrifying thought (though 'occupy houses' seems like a very obvious counter-mechanism). Hedge funds and investors go and buy all the houses, b

The latter is a horrifying thought (though 'occupy houses' seems like a very obvious counter-mechanism). Hedge funds and investors go and buy all the houses, because they need to park money somewhere and no Americans can buy houses. That's pretty much hilariously apocalyptic. More police, to defend (execution-style) the empty houses owned by literally piles of abstract capital!