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Welcome to Talking Trash,
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where we talk trash, eat trash, think trash, sleep trash, feel trash, know trash, love trash. I got some good trash for you today. I found them here. But actually, bad news, 26% of affordable housing just in the last quarter was bought up by institutional investors. This is trash. You know what grinds my gears?
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Is when we got investors buying up homes when we've already got a housing shortage. Rents are too high, housing prices are too high, mortgage rates are too high. It says here in this article, elevated home prices and mortgage rates, along with sluggish rents, have made low-priced homes increasingly attractive to investors. This means that

TALKING TRASH #1: Trouble in Housing Supply

The Homeless Economist
Jul 11, 2024
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We found some alarming information on the housing market in the trash this week boys.

The housing supply shortage is not from a lack of land or building materials or demand. it's from land grabbing investors and rent seeking. investors can't have it all man c'mon.

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