President Trump’s Executive Order to ban institutional investors from purchasing single family homes gets the equation backward. The real problem in America’s housing market may not be too many institutional investors—but too few.
In his January 21 speech in Davos, President Trump reiterated his desire to prevent these investors from competing with families for homes. It’s a response to an understandable concern about the state of the single-family housing market that he inherited. During the Biden administration, home prices went up by 34% while wages went up 20%—a large affordability gap.
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