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Big investors are not helping the housing market. But after years of telling people that 'housing is a great investment' and enacting all kinds of policies to j
by davidw 3y ago
Big investors are not helping the housing market. But after years of telling people that 'housing is a great investment' and enacting all kinds of policies to jack up prices... are we surprised they piled in?
They're kind of scapegoats though: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-crisis-hedge-funds-private-equity-scapegoat/672839/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...
They even come right out and say this stuff in their SEC filings, that if markets stop being supply constrained it'll negatively impact their investments.