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Trump Hits at Institutional Investors in Single-Family Homes | Bloomberg Businessweek
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President Donald Trump said he would move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes, part of a push to address housing affordability ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
“People live in homes, not corporations,” Trump said in a social media post Wednesday announcing the effort, adding that he would expound on the plan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month.
The news sent shares of homebuilders, including Toll Brothers Inc., Invitation Homes Inc., KB Home and PulteGroup Inc., down. Shares of Blackstone Inc. — a major investor in single-family homes in the US —fell by as much as 9.3%, though later pared some of those losses.
The initiative comes after Trump’s allies have repeatedly raised alarms that affordability has become a political albatross for the GOP heading into the November elections. Trump urged Republican lawmakers Tuesday to avoid losing control of the House this year, saying it would lead to his impeachment. There’s reason for the White House’s concern: Just 36% of Americans said they approved of Trump’s job performance in a Gallup poll released in December, about 2 percentage points higher than his personal low before his first term ended in January 2021. Nearly half of adults described current economic conditions as “poor.”
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Bloomberg Intelligence Senior REITs and Commercial Real Estate Analyst Jeffrey Langbaum on President Donald Trump’s move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes
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Francisco Rodriguez, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, on the future of Venezuela’s government and the administration of its oil assets
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