The Affluence crowd is Democrats who care about housing but their interest is in urban rentals whereas MAGA housing policy is about owner occupied single family dwellings. It would be nice to put partisanship aside and do both but Democrats seem to be turning to Vance hate since he is a major advocate of this policy.
If the Biden Democrats had come up with this idea to restrict Wall Street from buying up residential housing, the media would have been trumpeting it from the heavens. However, since the Democrats get a lot of political donations from Wall Street firms, they cannot go there.
It’s not at all clear that homes built specifically for the rental market disenfranchises homebuyers. An argument could be made that increasing the stock of single family homes for rent adds to overall supply and decreases prices. It’s the private equity firms buying existing housing stock that is potentially competing against first time home buyers.
Bernie Moreno is a scumbag car dealer who fights to protect dealerships over consumers. Nothing he says is worth listening to.
The Affluence crowd is Democrats who care about housing but their interest is in urban rentals whereas MAGA housing policy is about owner occupied single family dwellings. It would be nice to put partisanship aside and do both but Democrats seem to be turning to Vance hate since he is a major advocate of this policy.
If the Biden Democrats had come up with this idea to restrict Wall Street from buying up residential housing, the media would have been trumpeting it from the heavens. However, since the Democrats get a lot of political donations from Wall Street firms, they cannot go there.
It’s not at all clear that homes built specifically for the rental market disenfranchises homebuyers. An argument could be made that increasing the stock of single family homes for rent adds to overall supply and decreases prices. It’s the private equity firms buying existing housing stock that is potentially competing against first time home buyers.
And if Congress wants to do something productive in its spare time, how about passing voter ID instead of having doggie costume parades: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-week-into-dhs-shutdown-dogs-in-costume-parade-through-the-senate/ar-AA1X7mWW
Corporations taxing us is big business