With investment groups, I've seen a few convincing theories that most of the mass investment group housing purchases were a result of the zero interest rate for

With investment groups, I've seen a few convincing theories that most of the mass investment group housing purchases were a result of the zero interest rate for an extended period and the effect of that on other investments, and that big investors are likely to try and divest themselves of all those houses over time now that interest rates are back up all at once. That still leaves landlords, but the only reason landlords have outsized power in the first place is that there's a massive housing deficit in every place in the US people actually want to live.