US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by ryandrake on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:29PM (#46533172)

Exactly. Nobody wants to hear this, because we're all Temporarily Embarrassed Landlords, but if a corporation buying 100 houses to sit on and extract rent is bad (or good), then 100 individuals each buying 1 house to sit on and extract rent must be equally bad (or good).

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by FarmerPotato on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:51PM (#46533535)

The complaint, real or imagined, is that young individuals aren’t building up capital. Home ownership was the bedrock of middle class assets.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by hn_acc1 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:12PM (#46533834)

Guaranteed those 100 individuals won't all raise their rent 10% (or whatever) on the same day, every n months.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by LPisGood on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:53PM (#46533571)

I disagree with this logic. To take it to an extreme, if one person earning a million dollars per minute has moral value X, then a million people earning one dollar per minute has moral value X. I disagree on principle.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by markdown on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:16AM (#46538187)

Just allow people and corporations to own any homes they build. That way we can all still hope to be landlords with a hundred homes.

So long as landlords grow their business by increasing the total stock of housing, no harm is done.

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