• @[email protected]
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    273 months ago

    Equity firms own 1.6 million homes in the US (both single family and multi family units).

    Just saying, that would get us most of the way there.

    • @sudo42
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      93 months ago

      What’s to keep Equity firms from buying those 2 million homes? Won’t that just leave us back where we are now?

      Do we think we can build more homes than Equity firms can spend other people’s money on?

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      How many are vacant? Those are the first ones that need to be reallocated.

      (Meaning, I’m not pro equity firm, I’m saying an occupied house is a house that is occupied. These 2mil new houses are for new occupants, not shuffled ones.)

      • @elrik
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        43 months ago

        I think the key point is ownership. If the house is owned by an equity firm, even if it’s occupied it still counts as a house which could instead be owned by, well, homeowners.