• Carmakazi@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    Trump says he will seek to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes shake down institutional investors for protection money and then let them keep buying property in bulk

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    5 days ago

    This will gain traction and then he’ll silently make a deal allowing the corpos even more control. MAGA will claim he already improved things and the rest of everyone can point at the corpos buying more homes and it won’t matter.

    Rinse and repeat.

  • harmsy@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s something actually good, so he won’t do it. That, or he’ll find a way to make it horrible.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Through actual legislation? Or through a backroom deal with companies that he thinks means they were going to do what he wanted but really they’re just getting him off their back?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    While this is ostensibly a sorely needed change, I’m also certain he’ll find a way to do it in a way that hurts people, doesn’t actually solve the problem or do what he’s saying it will do, and also makes himself a shitload of money.

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        5 days ago

        Clearly, one family won’t be able to fit in a 1-bed, 1-bath shack. With 3 kids, they’ll need at least 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. Include the grandparents on both sides, and that’s 6 bedrooms, 4 baths. And for good measure, add a guest room with its own bathroom.

        It makes perfect sense to reclassify a “single family home” as a 7-bed, 5-bath McMansion. Anything less is just a rental suite, obviously /s

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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          It makes perfect sense to reclassify a “single family home” as a 7-bed, 5-bath McMansion. Anything less is just a rental suite, obviously /s

          You could fit an extra couple in there though if needed, so that’s not a single family home either.

          Might be 0 SFH in the USA