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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by tptacek on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:46PM (#46536556)
No. I actually don't give a shit whether corporations can buy single-family houses, by which I mean, I don't care if that's banned. My problem is that high-opportunity high-value residential areas are deeply resistant to upzoning and are actively using this "corporate investor" narrative as a reason why they should wait. Corporate investors are not why the inner ring suburbs with the good schools in major metros are expensive; zoning is. This is literally a distraction from affordability work.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by paulryanrogers on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:55PM (#46537016)
There can be more than one problem at once. Two different solutions can be tried at the same time.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by tptacek on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:13PM (#46537114)
This doesn't acknowledge anything I just wrote.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by paulryanrogers on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:22AM (#46540233)
You said blaming corp buyers is a distraction from NIMBYISM. I'd argue corp buyers are a problem as well as NIMBYISM. Both should get blamed and be addressed.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by tptacek on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:28PM (#46543748)
In fact, it's the opposite: corp buyers are associated with declining rents. I don't care what happens with them either way, they're a second-order factor, but most of what people are saying about this phenomenon is just wrong.