Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
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Absolutely no property buying for them
aug 25, 2025, 10:06 am • 1 0 • view
They don't want to make housing affordable. And they don't want individuals buying homes anymore. That's the plan of the greedy!
aug 25, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
One of the WORST of these? Steve Mnuchin, Trump's Treasury Secretary whose vulture capitalist hedge fund scarfed up home foreclosures, then doubled/tripled/quadruple the monthy rent for obscene profits It was impossible for homeowners to hand on tow homeownership www.democracynow.org/2019/10/15/a...
aug 24, 2025, 9:54 pm • 7 0 • view
He has the kind of face Ted Cruz has - punchable. Smug asshole.
aug 24, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Fucking parasites.
aug 24, 2025, 9:55 pm • 2 1 • view
Wall Street and large developers are at the heart of this mess. We need to bring back local builders, competing for your business to build your home. It can be done. I will soon be publishing my home design and how to get one built, all free, so not to add to the cost of your home.
aug 24, 2025, 8:53 pm • 10 3 • view
And pay attention to city government.. most people don't know their council members or what they'll be voting about next, how it will affect them today or next year.
aug 24, 2025, 9:24 pm • 5 2 • view
Still remember the sub-prime mortgage industry collapsing in 2007... but sure, MAGA, we need to burn down everything under the Sun this time!!!
aug 25, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
First, make housing and rent unaffordable and then round up all the homeless people into MAGA Work Makes You Free Concentration Camps for hire instead of going to Home Depot for illegal aliens 👽
aug 25, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson
aug 25, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Home prices are crashing across the US. This is happening in coastal cities, across the Sun Belt & the Mountain West. The reason is because US corporations are failing and insurance companies have raised prices up to 4x due to climate crisis concerns - fires & floods. Corporations buy low sell high.
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 3 1 • view
If we want life to be worth living for our children we must end capitalism
aug 24, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Those same gluttons were telling everyone the last few years that the bulk of homes were owned by small time LLs while the gobbled up a controlling share of the market for themselves
aug 25, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
We actually need a housing crash!
aug 24, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 1 • view
Changing capital gains tax laws would help.
aug 24, 2025, 9:51 pm • 3 1 • view
Housing market in Gringolandia is fully commoditized.
aug 25, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
Massive issue where we live, so expensive here.
aug 24, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 1 • view
Agreed! Same issue exists in Canada! Greed merchants are everywhere!
aug 25, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
GA Sen Jon Ossoff has been sounding this alarm for awhile, but making people life-long renters in homes that they might otherwise be able to purchase is far too lucrative for the real estate businesses in bed with the GOP for the party in power to do anything about this.
aug 25, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
The ELF talked of economic damage with out taking lives. That it was the only language that corporations spoke. Impacting their insurability. Let me stress they did not condone taking lives. I am not condoning violence. Just talking the language of the corporation.
aug 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 2 1 • view
I want to quote you, but where did you get that statistic?
aug 25, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
This has been going on for a long time. But we have no way of fighting it unless states step in and act with bravery.
aug 25, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
What is the solution to this problem? Is there a legislative fix?
aug 24, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
When we bought a home 15 yrs ago, the seller’s agent said she tried to buy it, but the owner would only sell to a fellow veteran. Our bid showed our VA financing, so the seller accepted our offer. Fuck big money investors. They are pricing Hawaiians out of the state. Stealing it a 2nd time.
aug 24, 2025, 10:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Strike Sept 17. Don’t go to work if possible by nothing b or at most buy local. Go to @generalstrikeus
aug 25, 2025, 5:44 am • 1 0 • view
I receive text messages, postcards, calls, and letters practically every week offering cash for my modest home. I will NEVER sell to a hedge fund manager or to a private investor!
aug 25, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh look 👀 Wall Street just bought another goddamn quarter of homes in America like they’re Monopoly tokens. Meanwhile families are couch-surfing. If you think this is capitalism, it’s not- it’s a fucking mugging in broad daylight. 🏚️💸 #HousingCrisis #WallStreetGreed
aug 24, 2025, 10:36 pm • 21 6 • view
2008: Wall St torches the housing market, gets bailed out with YOUR money. 🔥🏦 2025: Wall St buys the houses you can’t afford. 🏠➡️💼 It’s the same smash-and-grab, just with better suits. And they’ll rent your own goddamn fucking future back to you! #RentIsTheft #HousingCrisis
aug 24, 2025, 10:37 pm • 8 2 • view
Here’s the math, folks: 🧮 Wages: crawling at 0.5% 🐌 Home prices: sprinting at 3.7% 🏃♂️💨 And investors? Gobbling up 40% of homes like greedy fucking Pac-Men. 🟡🏠🏠🏠 Where’s the upside?! Oh right- on Wall Street’s yachts. 🚤 #WallStreetGreed #HousingJustice
aug 24, 2025, 10:37 pm • 8 4 • view
Housing is not a stock option. It’s not a goddamn Pokémon card. It’s a fucking human right. 🏠✊ If we can’t even keep roofs over people’s heads without hedge funds squeezing rent like it’s orange juice, then what the hell are we doing as a country? #HousingCrisis #KeepFighting
aug 24, 2025, 10:38 pm • 7 1 • view
Robert Reich nails it: treat housing as a human right, not a casino chip. Rent control, affordable homes, kill Wall Street’s parasitic grip. 🚫🦈 Because a country where hedge funds own your house isn’t “free”- it’s a feudal lordship in Goldman Sachs cosplay. 🏰💰#WallStreetGreed
aug 24, 2025, 10:43 pm • 8 2 • view
You don't want to make housing affordable
aug 25, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
It's being treated as a commodity.
aug 24, 2025, 8:39 pm • 3 1 • view
😢
aug 24, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 1 • view
Yes. Let’s do this. Is both the popular and right thing to do too (fighting private equity to make housing more affordable that is). And this intimately related to those things not actually addressing at all by drinking tanks into our cities either…
aug 25, 2025, 9:18 am • 2 0 • view
This needs to END NOW!!!
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 2 • view
Hopefully this awakening will force serious thought about what greedy people are doing by stepping on everybody else!
aug 24, 2025, 8:41 pm • 5 1 • view
Heck Obama was Wall Street's boy. Obama Was Always in Wall Street’s Corner share.google/See5QtLRtJEo...
aug 24, 2025, 9:48 pm • 2 0 • view
As if Wall Street did that on their own and didn't have the help of countless lobbies in Congress to grease some palms to make it happen.
aug 24, 2025, 9:44 pm • 2 1 • view
This is bad for renters.
aug 25, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
This is bad for rents.
aug 25, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
I probably get mail once a week offering to buy my house.
aug 24, 2025, 9:21 pm • 3 1 • view
Thats kind of challenging Mr Reich when the bank that is giving the interest rate has INVESTORS Regulating all home loans under the Dept of Housing, Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae would be tantamount to social housing or subsidized housing and all housing would be become basic
aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 4 1 • view
Exactly, house flippers are a plague. When I was growing up, people stayed in their homes, so when they sold to move, the prices would inch up. Now, some houses in every neighbourhood are bought and sold multiple times in a year or two. Every time the house is sold, they push the prices up.
aug 24, 2025, 9:51 pm • 5 1 • view
And quit laundering for foreign investors
aug 25, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
Sound familiar?
aug 24, 2025, 9:10 pm • 2 1 • view
Property taxes have skyrocketed and have become abusive. Add to that the soaring property insurance cost, a system totally mismanaged by our current regulatory framework, and boom - we get sky-high rent prices. Notice how two key components behind rentals prices have a government connection.
aug 26, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Real estate investment has caused incredible damage to Australian housing affordability. Airbnb is a further nail in the coffin of home ownership here.
aug 26, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
But we must show compassion for those trying to invest all the money they save NOT PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE IN TAXES!! Serious effen sarcasm! Phoenix housing market has been blown up by investors for over a decade!! Entire neighborhoods show hardly any sign of people living in the homes!
aug 25, 2025, 2:13 am • 5 2 • view
People selling their homes have a choice who they sell to. Every home I have sold, I've made sure I sell it to a family not an investor.
aug 24, 2025, 9:30 pm • 4 1 • view
Renting Crisis thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-0...
aug 24, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
First it was banks that crashed the housing market! Now we have big time real estate investors in housing! When you make it impossible for people to rent or buy homes what do you think will happen to the housing market?
aug 25, 2025, 10:11 am • 10 4 • view
Airbnb and Vrbo ruining everything. Single family homes should only be owned by........ Hmmm..... Wait for it....... Single families.
aug 25, 2025, 2:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Definitely not corporations where they can manipulate the market!!
aug 25, 2025, 5:54 pm • 2 0 • view
I hope they lose everything
aug 25, 2025, 6:43 pm • 2 0 • view
A housing crash will affect everyone not just people you don’t like!
aug 25, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe one of the many reasons Kamala lost was because she said let’s build more houses instead of targeting Wall Street and foreign investments in our housing market. People know there is not a housing shortage but an abundance of venture capital.
aug 24, 2025, 10:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Where I live, all homes were picked up by air b and bs. Over one hundred were sold for this, which leaves no place for locals to live. THIS creates homelessness.
aug 25, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
This is obvious and has been for the longest time. Tax second homes at 2x normal rates, 3rd at 3 times and so on. But it will never happen in this capitalistic hellscape.
aug 25, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
My moms house was purchased by an investor, but her house was filled with mold and needed an engineered septic tank she couldn’t afford.
aug 31, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I had no idea
aug 25, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
What about when you touted “historic preservation” when trying to block a ten unit housing development in your neighborhood? www.berkeleyside.org/2020/08/07/l...
aug 24, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
That and people who don't by a home to live in, but to flip. I think if you don't live in a home for more than 3 years, before selling it, you should have to pay a penalty tax on the profit, over and above the usual tax.
aug 24, 2025, 9:29 pm • 5 1 • view
Yes, and the loan interest rate should be higher, along with higher property taxes.
aug 24, 2025, 10:29 pm • 3 0 • view
In Oakland, CA, where a gas station used to be, they leveled the lot and built a multi-unit apartment complex in a tiny space. It's conveniently located to a hospital and transit, but the units are so expensive, they are out of reach for the average person in Oakland. $5,000 - $6,000/month rent.
aug 24, 2025, 9:41 pm • 3 1 • view
The same private equity that Gavin is wed to open.substack.com/pub/noelkeit...
aug 25, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Only private citizens should be allowed to purchase housing of four or less units
aug 25, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
This should be unlawful.🤬
aug 25, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
Screw Wall Street for so many reasons.
aug 25, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Vulture capitalists will get burned soon. The bubble deflation has already started in FL.
aug 29, 2025, 1:46 am • 2 0 • view
Trump will never sign End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act, even if it were passed.
aug 24, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Arizona implemented several programs in the early 1990s aimed at low-income homebuyers, often excluding investors and rehabilitating homes to make them livable for qualifying families.The initiative during that era was connected to the federal Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA)
sep 1, 2025, 4:56 am • 0 0 • view
and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which directly addressed these needs. The HOME Investment Partnerships Program was created by NAHA in 1990, specifically designed to help states and local governments finance housing for low- and moderate-income renters and first-time homebuyers.
sep 1, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
Rose Mofford was governor of Arizona at the time.
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Woe to the rich ..Jesus in Luke 6
aug 25, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
It should be an abuse of power and unconstitutional. It's a fundamental part of privatization to undermine and control the will of the people through excess pricing. The way Reagan went after college students through tuition costs because they were protesting an illegal and immoral war.
aug 24, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 1 • view
Why not base property taxes for every house, not your regular residence and the first two after, on the purchase price and not the county tax assessment? Any house, housing unit, and rental property owned by any corporation to be regulated the same.
aug 25, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
There is legislation written to limit the purchase of investment homes…but guess what? Republicans!
aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 5 1 • view
Yeah, the list of things we know we need to do just keeps growing. We know.. we cant do anything because of our corrupt government. And we know that too and so do they. They're finally being honest, this administration. Honest? Yeah You WILL NOT have anything nice. Stop asking. Well, fuck them!
aug 24, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
And buy the house…even if you don’t love the interest rate. Refinance later to a better rate. We’ve got to keep the billionaires from buying up America!
aug 25, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
Easier. We just need to track down the investors and start burning them at the stake. Once the first few hundred have been live streamed dying in agony the rest may start to rethink their life decisions.
aug 24, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a huge issue in Nevada with Gov Lombardo in bed with real estate investors allowing it to happen. Time we vote him out in 2026! @aarondfordnv.bsky.social for governor!
aug 24, 2025, 8:43 pm • 44 14 • view
This should be a big Democrat issue in your state. Who are your leaders? Are any of them here on BSky?
aug 25, 2025, 2:27 am • 8 0 • view
Our AG is running against Lombardo.
aug 25, 2025, 5:15 am • 2 0 • view
1000%.
aug 25, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
But I thought baby boomers and older generations were to blame for "hoarding their own homes"? *sarcasm
aug 25, 2025, 8:07 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely, and build build build.
aug 24, 2025, 8:33 pm • 4 0 • view
With imported building materials attracting tariffs building a home will also skyrocket
aug 24, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
This is a huge issue all over the world due to unchecked capitalism. Real estate investment should be limited to commercial plots. Residential plots should be limited to one per person.
aug 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 6 2 • view
Isn't capitalism wonderful.(???) 🤪
aug 25, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes
aug 25, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re also why homes are so expensive to buy. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
aug 25, 2025, 2:35 pm • 1 0 • view
@nealea.bsky.social
aug 25, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view
That and airbnb!!! My area in southern Maine is extremely gentrified. Theres literally no where the locals can live.
aug 24, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
They will own everything. That is the plan. They are pushing Americans out of their homes, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, Americans are using services like Afterpay to buy groceries and household basics. Making six figures isnt even enough in this economy. What will be the breaking point?
aug 24, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 1 • view
I’d say this is a perfect example of capitalism running amok.
aug 25, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
One policy that could use this phenomenon... Charge double the property tax for rental properties and use the funds from that windfall to build tiny homes for the unhoused.
aug 24, 2025, 8:35 pm • 30 3 • view
If taxes go up on rental property the owners will pass that on to renters.
aug 25, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
I guess I'm naive enough to believe that the market still dictates rental rates. If the market wouldn't bear higher rents, the corporate owner would either leave their rent alone or sell the property.
aug 25, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Or leave the house empty and eventually it becomes a moldering wreck, torn down by the city or filled with squatters, or burns, taking other homes with it.
aug 25, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sad that I tried to have a thread to discuss ways to improve housing for all, and instead of getting constructive ideas, I get nothing but negativity. Yes houses sitting empty is a potential problem. Surely there is some policy way around that problem?
aug 25, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It's scattered. My city requests that empty houses be reported, but aside from keeping a list for inspectors to target they don't do much. Once a month the grass is cut, a bill tacked onto the taxes, and that's it. Now and then the disrepair is so bad they'll condemn it, knock it down.
aug 25, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
A few have burned. 2 on my street did, one because a squatter lit a fire in the fireplace, it was blocked. The other is still ?? 14 years after. Out of town landlords don't care. Many cannot be traced, it's an LLC owned by another LLC owned by a holding company - no one to hold responsible.
aug 25, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
When ownership is traced to out of state, collecting on demo costs or forcing repairs is difficult, impossible. So a home that might have been worth fixing sits empty, rots, and is demolished. Allowing cities to take ownership and sell the property would help. Not sure how states look at that.
aug 25, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Encourage more housing. I read that Austin did that and the rental prices dropped. I don’t know about the purchase prices.
aug 25, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
The taxes just raise the rent and then you have more homeless, NO. You are still denying normal people with average incomes the right to home ownership! Groups and banks should not be able to buy homes.
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 21 2 • view
Okay. what happens if every corporate owned house in America was suddenly on the market?
aug 25, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Not all houses are owned by corporations. I once owned a second home in South Dakota. It was taxed at a higher rate if I was not in residence on a specific date. Maybe explore the idea before doing a knee jerk reaction.
aug 24, 2025, 10:22 pm • 6 0 • view
There’s a huge difference between an individual owning a 2nd home and corporations and private equity owning thousands all across the country. Not at all comparable.
aug 24, 2025, 11:34 pm • 15 1 • view
The point was to try to think about solutions. If there was more revenue could we use it to solve problems like the unhoused? If every corporate owned home was suddenly put on the market, what would happen? In CO, there seems to be more homes on the market than buyers.
aug 25, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
The issue is more complicated than "let's make all corporate owners sell immediately"
aug 25, 2025, 12:21 am • 3 0 • view
This is a recent story about the housing marked in CO coloradosun.com/2025/04/12/w...
aug 25, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
I read about a (yet another) "luxury rental" complex going up in my town. It's financed by a developer who is also a First Selectman (different town.) His company owns many buildings and the rent for a 580 SF studio is $2030+utilities + amenities fee. How can people save?
aug 25, 2025, 1:36 am • 4 0 • view
I forgot to mention, his business sells shares in the rental complex building business.
aug 25, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view
I didn't say there was
aug 25, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
If you increase my landlord’s taxes, he will (and has) passed it on to me. I can barely afford rent now, so an increase would make me among the unhoused. This is a Trump like idea: create homelessness, slightly repair the issue, and expect applause for barely fixing the mess created.
aug 25, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
So, what is YOUR solution. I don't mind the criticism or that you disgree with ideas that I've thrown out, but you need to know that I am not a Trump supporter, I have a BS in business from the University of Colorado, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about the current housing crisis.
aug 25, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Lower the price of rent.
aug 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
LBJ once put a cap on the price of ground beef ...
aug 26, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you think government should control the price of rent? How about other prices? NYC had/has rent control and people still have trouble affording it.
aug 26, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
There's no easy fix unfortunately. Canada banned sales to foreign investors and, in Vancouver at least, there was a corresponding drop in new construction. Largest impact was on the luxury market yet still overall prices didn't come down. Foreign sales were a tiny % though so not surprising.
aug 24, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I see ad after ad on tv for investors wanting to buy properties for cash as is. This sucks.
aug 24, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
There's also big real estate firms that buy your house in order to get you into and finance your next home. If your first home is in a depressed market and unlikely to sell, they'll try to rent it out.
aug 25, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
If only we had a President that cared and had some ideas for making it affordable.......Oh wait that WAS KAMALA HARRIS! 😡😡🤬🤬 35 fckn % didn't care enough to vote at all. (Still angers me I can't get past that!)
aug 24, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Most homes in the most dangerous areas of Orlando are investor owned - and additional city resources are required to maintain these areas - through zoning a city could easily create “non-rental” areas - but they benefit in Florida by the higher tax rate levied on investor-owned homes
aug 25, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
Isn't there already too many houses for the people we have and our population is going to decline. So won't they be sitting on excess houses and rentals very soon? Legit question.
aug 24, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 1 • view
Same in Australia & with the rise in interest rates post COVID rents went up, never to return. Not to mention the median house price in Sydney is now AUD$1.722 million & in Melbourne is AUD$1.11 million. Young people are priced out & too many women my age are living in their cars.
aug 24, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
There should be a law prioritizing home buyers first. Their bids should have priority first.
aug 24, 2025, 9:55 pm • 2 1 • view
I would never sell my 4BR home to anyone without meeting them and their children. Agents always seem to want to separate the buyer and seller. No children? Why do you need 4 bedrooms?
aug 24, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely right! 🏠 Housing prices and rents are becoming increasingly outrageous, making them unaffordable for ordinary people. Do you think the solution is to restrict Wall Street investment, or should the government directly increase the construction of affordable housing?
aug 25, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
Same in UK. There should be a ban on owning more than 2 domestic properties, applicable to individuals and businesses.
aug 25, 2025, 11:04 am • 1 0 • view
Time for a 99% bracket
aug 25, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
Our property taxes went up 33%, all due to one house in our area sold for 3x the usual price, so the valuation went up 3x. I complained with the town clerk, and she said, well that's what houses are going for now. I said, NO, that was just for that ONE house. Does not matter, THEY WIN.
aug 24, 2025, 10:54 pm • 2 0 • view
And yet this is what houses go for..but when the rent them out the properties look like shit . There is one for sale on my block that had been rented , it's been sitting on the market for months . Over grown grass and weeds, the garage door is totally broken off
aug 24, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Kinda like if we want food to be healthy again, we need to get Wall Street out of it. Pretty much Wall Street needs to get out of a lot of things.
aug 24, 2025, 9:55 pm • 5 2 • view
Thank you! So good to finally see someone else saying this!! Any second residential property bought by any corporate or private interest should be taxed super high!! People should have the opportunity to purchase a home without having to compete with the ultra wealthy. We can't!!
aug 25, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
This needs to stop
aug 24, 2025, 8:35 pm • 6 1 • view
Should be illegal.
aug 24, 2025, 8:50 pm • 4 1 • view
I get texts almost daily from them wanting to buy my townhouse. I'm not selling, but if I do, it's not going to be to them.
aug 24, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Congress won't do shit
aug 25, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
Homes where I live are unaffordable (as most in the country.) The housing market has collapsed and the city-approved developers to built thousands of apartments around our homes. Our city doesn't have the infrastructure and water supply to support the unplanned growth & population.
aug 25, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
First, mandate a maximum rent to can be charged on any residential property; equal to 100% of the interest, excluding repayments, on a brand new 25 year mortgage on that property. Second, automatic forfeiture of properties left unoccupied for 1 year.
aug 25, 2025, 9:07 am • 0 0 • view
The media and the experts were silent in 2020..when the Federal Reserve printed $8+ trillion to bail out Wall Street..Amazing to watch..The DOW down 5000 points at 2pm..the Feds computer buys kicked in.. Closing at 4pm down 5 points..Never as much as a THANK YOU from Wall Street..only price hikes..
aug 25, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
.. Yes... Many properties just sitting there,..Empty.. Squatters move in.. Cities crack down .. Fox & Frenzy to the rescue.. Blasting local governments for doing so.. Fox & Frenzy provide cover for every evil thing Wall Street does to Main Street..
aug 25, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Doll houses anyone?
aug 24, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Real estate speculation, the housing bubble. Wasn't that what caused the crash of '08?
aug 24, 2025, 9:27 pm • 4 1 • view
We can start by changing the property tax rate on non-homestead properties to 200-300% of what they are now We can change the way we tax rental income We can limit the deductions used to offset rental income We can limit investor ownership to multi family units only
aug 24, 2025, 9:04 pm • 2 1 • view
Anything linked to the free market with its foundation of greed is doomed. Our system is unsustainable.
aug 24, 2025, 8:40 pm • 10 1 • view
Problem: they WILL rebuild it because most people, average workers don't want to be bothered with local government, regulations, rules, taxes any of it... they want to eat, sleep, drink and watch sports or Netflix. And THAT is the American problem. Willful Ignorance.
aug 24, 2025, 9:25 pm • 5 2 • view
Here in Hawaii, the price of homes is dictated by non-resident speculators that purchase our homes only to illegally rent them out as vacation rentals.
aug 24, 2025, 10:05 pm • 2 1 • view
I live on Oahu. Our HOA has a provision prohibiting vacation rentals. We all know who owns, who rents, and which cars belong here. There is a new development on what was once farmland near Kapolei. I’m positive that investors are buying in. They won’t be affordable to the average Hawaiian.
aug 24, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
No affordable housing is available for local residents. Live in Kailua, no HOA. House behind us was an illegal short-term vacation rental. Accumulated 700K in penalties but actually only fined a couple thousand by C&C building dept.
aug 24, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Ooh Kailua. We call it Little California. 😜 No offense.
aug 25, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
It needs to be ILLEGAL for corporations to buy single family homes
aug 25, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 6:04 am • 0 0 • view
It would also help to not be in a fascist dictatorship.
aug 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Private Equity firms are responsible for much of the inflation.
aug 25, 2025, 5:11 am • 4 0 • view
Letting the billionaires take all our wealth to use against us wasn't such a hot idea after all.
aug 25, 2025, 5:19 am • 2 0 • view
All*
aug 25, 2025, 5:50 am • 0 0 • view
One day the peasants will storm Wall Street and the stockbrokers will be razed....
aug 24, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
IF the Democrats would actually LISTEN to the poor and working classes and STOP being puppet politicians, owned and controlled by the wealthiest AND start doing what's best for the poor and working classes..... the Democrats could mop the floor with the Republicans!!!
aug 25, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The rule would be simple but noone will ever implement it: "homes/habitation, after the first sale (from developer to first sale) can not be owned by entities, only people!"
aug 24, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 1 • view
Buying up the inventory with debt as cash which pushes the prices out of reach for families that can only get loans for as much as the comps deam the value of the property. Once the investors own the homes the comps rise per the new values, pushing costs higher and higher. Corrupt AF!!
aug 24, 2025, 10:30 pm • 2 0 • view
We need to get rid of Wallstreet and their tiresome corruption full stop.
aug 24, 2025, 8:45 pm • 9 1 • view
Housing has become a "commodity". When there is a "new launch" of pre-built condos, investors swoop in and often sell the entire project out, 400-1200 units all gone in hours to international investors. Been selling RE in Toronto for 45 years. The landscape has changed. Corp buyers rule. #NotGood
aug 24, 2025, 8:54 pm • 27 4 • view
Sounds exactly like any city ir town in Australia. Sydney is ground zero for this kind of thing.
aug 24, 2025, 11:36 pm • 7 0 • view
Global issue, no better time to act! We need to fight this utter bullshit. Sounds like it’s a big part of what’s stopping us from having the buying power they did in the damn 70’s and 80’s.
aug 25, 2025, 3:43 am • 4 0 • view
I do think it’s a global issue - it’s just hitting everywhere right now
aug 25, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Same thing happened after 2008!
aug 25, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The wealthy buying up more & more assets & putting them out of the reach of ordinary people, who then can only rent from the wealthy. We're fast going back to a feudal society where the wealthy own everything & the rest of us have to rent it off them
aug 24, 2025, 8:40 pm • 104 14 • view
I just shared an article about how bad restaurants in Washington DC are doing. Soon the investors will come in and scoop up these failing businesses for pennies on the dollar. There will be no more small business owners.
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 39 5 • view
The super-wealthy have enormous advantages because of our tax system (they pay little to no taxes & have loopholes & tax shelters). They have so much disposable income that they can buy up all the businesses. File for bankruptcy and then buy more businesses again.
aug 24, 2025, 10:36 pm • 24 2 • view
And have a boys toys race to Mars.
aug 24, 2025, 11:39 pm • 15 1 • view
💯🔥💫👆
aug 25, 2025, 12:39 am • 4 0 • view
Yes. This is happening w/ family-owned farms, too. Big wealthy investors (foreign & American) wait for small farms to fail. Then the wealthy buy the land for pennies on the dollar & "work out a deal" to let farms continue their operations. Basically cut themselves in on these small businesses. Foul
aug 25, 2025, 6:47 am • 1 0 • view
Restaurants usually don’t own the property they are using. They just go bankrupt and sell off the fixtures.
aug 25, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
...or go live on the streets and be picked up by the National Guard!
aug 25, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
Trump’s already doing the king bit. Now he’s got the shire reeves like Thomas and Pirro doing his bidding.
aug 25, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, get the greedy slumlords and big corp with their free money out of real estate. My home is my castle 🏰
aug 26, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Seems I’ve seen this before
aug 24, 2025, 8:35 pm • 2 1 • view
But.. But... Capitalism! Americans love to fear Communism, the truth is the real enemy is Capitalism given free rein, a lesson we learned in the "Industrial Age" and forgot starting with Reagan, The father of the great American deficit, and the renewed war on the poor.
aug 25, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It also works out beautifully for those lucky enough to have more than one property, and ESP for those who’s mortgage is less than ‘market value’. For the rest of us that means we’re bled dry and then turned out on the street.
aug 25, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
THIS cannot be said enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aug 24, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactamundo
aug 25, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 25, 2025, 10:17 am • 2 0 • view
This is how you start erasing the poor.Tell your rich friends to buy up properties . Make renting unaffordable, create more homeless people, call it a crime ( being homeless). Kidnap, put them on government planes and create cheap incarcerated labor force for your ‘friendly’ shithole countries
aug 24, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 1 • view
It’s not Wall Street. It’s my neighbor with 4 VRBO’s.
aug 24, 2025, 8:43 pm • 8 1 • view
Actually you're lucky because you can't beat Wall Street. Now your neighbor just might develop a skunk problem.
aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 1 • view
Thank you for highlighting this problem. It's not just that people can't afford to buy a house but also that people who would like to divorce can't because neither party can afford to leave the home.
aug 25, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
www.thecon.tv
aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
I was thinking that with all those breadwinners being kidnapped while trying to make a living would make more housing available and drop prices. I listen to you for a reason.
aug 25, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely
aug 24, 2025, 9:41 pm • 3 1 • view
U.S.government needs a complete overhaul after this idiot is out of office!!
aug 25, 2025, 10:56 am • 3 2 • view
There are two economies. Only one of them gets talked about, and that's not the one that has anything to do with everyday people. youtu.be/CeOUvaCDuAg
aug 24, 2025, 8:34 pm • 11 2 • view
Thing one - The Market is not The Economy
aug 24, 2025, 9:20 pm • 5 1 • view
This can be accomplished by counties/communities via the property tax. Jack up single-family homes into the unaffordable/uneconomic range, with substantial discounts for owner-occupants.
aug 24, 2025, 9:25 pm • 5 1 • view
And out of healthcare! They buy up medical facilities for profit and force sub-standard care to cut costs!
aug 25, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 1 • view
That's why, when people say we need to build more housing, I say NO! The more you build, the more the predators buy! We need to get them out of the housing market. Until we do, we need to re-purpose existing structures: empty malls, empty offices, etc.
aug 24, 2025, 10:20 pm • 2 0 • view
These are popping up all over the place, too. People are spending $1M+ to store their fancy cars. Prime real estate in my town went for this. We could have had a bunch of nice townhouses instead.
aug 25, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
2/3rds of the 175 homes in our little subdivision have been purchased by investors. They are obvious rentals w no character, no less than bare minimum upkeep. Corporations are not people, but they will suck the soul out of a neighborhood if it makes $. #AffordableHousing #resist
aug 24, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
And out of Dublin. Our government lives to talk up the FD investment in Ireland but does nothing to prepare for the inevitable need for new housing and infrastructure required. Dublin and Ireland in general is too expensive to live or holiday in, ruined by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over 35 years.
aug 25, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
2008 all over again. But no one is coming next year to fix it.
aug 24, 2025, 9:46 pm • 6 2 • view
In the most recent article I read, in my state the percentage of properties held by private equity firms was really low. You would be taking out mom and pop investors and the people who buy properties for short term rental. I think the better approach would be to ban short term rentals.
aug 25, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Constantly getting notices in the mail ‘we want to buy your home’. Never been like that before. It feels predatory
aug 24, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Sound familiar?
aug 24, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 1 • view
YES.
aug 24, 2025, 8:52 pm • 2 1 • view
Reich is right, but who are the investors?! Do you own shares in a real estate based mutual fund? If so, you're the investor. Does your retirement fund do it? Then they're an investor. If you are an investor in a corporate raider, move your investment.
aug 25, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
And now people are defaulting again which will let those same investors grab more. We never learn.
aug 25, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
We need laws blocking big companies and investors from buying homes.
aug 24, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
To own, or to be owned. That is the question.
aug 25, 2025, 12:43 am • 0 0 • view
Can we have an escalating vacancy tax that kicks in after six months?
aug 24, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 1 • view
But I need another Airbnb😵💫
aug 24, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 1 • view
Trying to buy a home but losing out to some shit called an "all cash offer" is infuriating. There's a reason millennials and genz are pissed off. But do they realize it's the billionaires, not trans people and "the woke" like the billionaires tell them?
aug 25, 2025, 5:17 am • 3 0 • view
I saw a billboard (in MA) offering tenants $10,000 in furniture for signing lease. My first thought was investors building and now hasty to fill the rents!
aug 24, 2025, 10:02 pm • 3 1 • view
I suggest revoking IRS section 1031 that allows property to be sold tax-free if the profits are invested in another property, so taxes can be deferred indefinitely while the greater value earns greater income. Kill it, and investing in property becomes an anchor.
aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 1 • view
And makes no difference to primary home ownership.
aug 24, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
The housing market was monetized, now the food market is being monetized.
aug 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 8 1 • view
At least in 2025, they weren’t buying them with PPP loans from the government that got magically forgiven.
aug 25, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
Been screaming into the void for a couple of decades now, housing should never have been an investment tool…
aug 24, 2025, 8:47 pm • 12 1 • view
Not a good signal at all.
aug 25, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
Get private equity OUT of the residential housing market.
aug 24, 2025, 9:59 pm • 4 2 • view
I constantly get annoying calls from people who want to buy my house.
aug 24, 2025, 9:39 pm • 3 1 • view
Same
aug 24, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
We need policies that favor owner occupancy and limit home ownership to 1 each until everyone has one.
aug 25, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
I think of all solutions what would FDR do It’s a real prob that MUST be FIXED ..1) Greedy dickheads that purposely did this to hurt Americans for greed 2) Do unto others AS they have done unto others With the same passion make homes available & lower price thru whatever necessary of THEM
aug 24, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Or tax the shit out of them.
aug 25, 2025, 9:50 am • 0 0 • view
I hope my real estate stock increases.
aug 25, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
I have noticed multiple house blocks being bought up by investment groups who are given the right to build high rise Storage Facilities recently. BIG money in storage and Carparks. Councils allow suburban rezoning for BUSINESSES with some palm tickling. 🇦🇺 Not just USA.
aug 24, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Any home that is rented as part of a real estate investor should be taxed significantly higher than the average homeowner. Municipalities should also regulate the amount of single family rentals allowed. Have a specific zone for such homes.
aug 24, 2025, 8:35 pm • 16 2 • view
I like the idea, but the reality is that the rents will simply go up, and or the maintenance drop. I KNOW the LLC and Corp owned homes around me by the lack of maintenance. Roofs failing, paint peeling, yards neglected, drives crumbling. They charge high rent, yet do nothing.
aug 25, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
These rentals cause issues in my communities as well. That is why they should be zoned and regulated. Just as hotels have additional taxes to pay municipalities for the additional services they create rentals should as well.
aug 25, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Then the rent goes up. It's not a solution.
aug 24, 2025, 9:20 pm • 8 1 • view
Wonder what ever happened to rent-controlled apartments? We could surely use those again.
aug 24, 2025, 9:46 pm • 9 1 • view
Another example of Democrats identifying a problem that affects middle class citizens, and proposing a solution. Did they get any credit for it?
aug 26, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Want more insight into our housing market, go look up Steve Mnuchin before 2008.
aug 25, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
And Repugnicans out of our bedrooms, ovaries, pockets etc. etc. etc. ...
aug 25, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I get calls from those corporations every day to buy my house, Phuque that!
aug 25, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
We should penalize this with death sentences
aug 25, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
It's coming to that soon. That's why the billionaires are looking for bugout places and ways to keep their private security force loyal.
aug 25, 2025, 5:20 am • 1 0 • view
Livestream the executions.
aug 25, 2025, 3:54 am • 2 0 • view
It would raise morale so it'll be worth it
aug 25, 2025, 3:57 am • 2 0 • view
Yup. There has been a huge increase in "houses for rent" for 5/6 thousand dollars a month. They come in and snatch up the properties, charge outrageous rents, AND all maintenance falls to the renters. It shouldn't be legal.
aug 24, 2025, 10:05 pm • 2 1 • view
Disgusting😡
aug 25, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
Soon only those well rewarded by kneeling to the MAGA deep state will be prosperous to afford the housing set aside for them by realtors who are already part of the problem set. Everyone else? Welcome to the ghettos of the former middle class, or to life in your cars or in the streets.
aug 24, 2025, 9:40 pm • 3 1 • view
Housing is a major issue in 2026. @jphicks.bsky.social @scottuhltx.bsky.social @jodywayzata.bsky.social
aug 25, 2025, 1:44 am • 3 1 • view
They are buying a bubble
aug 24, 2025, 8:57 pm • 5 1 • view
That percentage will rise until it goes to well over half. It will go the same direction that income inequality has gone for decades. It will do so bcuz MAGAts will continue to vote Republican and they’re the owners of the RE investor groups.
aug 25, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
I guess it bears repeating
aug 24, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Facts
aug 24, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Same shit everywhere. People thinks Trump is the worst ever, but Reagan's and Thatcher's brainwash of everybody everywhere, about how deregulation of everything would set consumers free really fucked the world over irreparably.
aug 25, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
AMEN! Nothing is pushing homes into unaffordable prices like investors cashing in on the housing crisis! When 45 percent of homes are investor owned we have a real problem! Once again my economic guru hits an issue head on!
aug 25, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
A huge shout to all the house flipping shows , the braindead who watched them & the assholes who became flippers them selves you & your greed help make it impossible for your kids to own homes . Take a bow . Seriously fuck Wall Street they should build a permanent guillotine on that street
aug 24, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait until the Trumpression hits. That was part of their goal from day one. Throw the country into chaos, and oligarchs will rake in trillions for depression prices. From real estate to bankrupt companies. Domestic terrorists have infiltrated our government. Just look at their stock purchases.
aug 24, 2025, 9:06 pm • 7 3 • view
All across Europe is the same sad story.
aug 25, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Comes back to the rich again. Homelessness is going up, and the problem isn't immigrants, the problem is the rich grabbing everything.
aug 25, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I m in rural area.. they ripped up the forest all around me.. put up RICH HUGE HOUSES one after the other .. wiped out foxes, rabbits, birds, owls… ect… No one in my area can afford these… they r moving in from nearby cities… streets aren’t made for heavy traffic .i get mailed offers all the time 👎🏽👎🏽
aug 24, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
They total ruined the rural country side … my local county/city .. Said nothing Did nothing Republican state
aug 24, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Acretrader capitalizes off of selling American Farms to foreigners.,
aug 24, 2025, 9:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump rolled back provisions of Dodd Frank allowing this to happen.
aug 24, 2025, 9:16 pm • 7 1 • view
Someone described corporate real estate investors as "scalpers" and that's honestly perfect. They buy up as much housing as they can and then sell (or rent) it for a hefty markup to those who couldn't otherwise get it. We hate scalpers. Why do we not hate corporate real estate?
aug 24, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
The Democrats wrote a bill to stop hedge funds and private equity from buying up homes. Republicans will never support it.
aug 24, 2025, 8:50 pm • 11 3 • view
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley wrote the bill, which has never come up for a vote!
aug 24, 2025, 10:36 pm • 2 0 • view
And stop turning homes into Airbandb's ...between corporations and Airbandbs we're losing alot of single family homes !!
aug 25, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view