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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by projectramo on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:33PM (#15565223)
Yes, I think the largest property owner in the US is Blackstone, a private equity firm that bought the property at the downturn.

From a strictly economic perspective they are helping increase demand when it was low and increase supply later on. They got rewarded for that.

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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by letlambda on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:37AM (#15566201)
How does owning a property increase it's supply? I'm not an economist, but I think you have got to build houses to make more of them.
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