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CousinIT

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2. Gotcha. The article itself used "Hedge funds" and so does the name of the bill

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 13, 2024, 09:45 AM

Apr 13

Merkley and Adam Smith have put forth. I don't know if that's a misnomer or what, but I changed the title of my post.

There may be a couple bills floating around about stopping or limiting private equity firms buying up housing, but I'm not aware of another one.

Whatever they are, they are contributing to the increase in housing prices and rents. Greedy bastards, pricing people out of their homes so they can make profit. Fucking robber barons.

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America needs more housing inventory. We ALSO need to stop private equity firms buying up homes [View all] CousinIT Apr 13 OP

Private Equity firms, not Hedge Funds. A HERETIC I AM Apr 13 #1

Gotcha. The article itself used "Hedge funds" and so does the name of the bill CousinIT Apr 13 #2

Think of a Hedge Fund as a Mutual Fund for "Qualified Investors" A HERETIC I AM Apr 13 #3

You can count on it. Their Project 2025 details their planned war on the working class CousinIT Apr 13 #4

They are turning Manufactured Home multigraincracker Apr 13 #5

I was shocked to find out that a coworker of mine pays 680 a month for the land rent on his mobile home. jimfields33 Apr 13 #8

Yes I pay 820 others pay 1000 just for lot rent owned by a LLC Oppaloopa Apr 13 #9

Yup, I was called by a recruiter to work for one of those TexasBushwhacker Apr 13 #13

The days of relatively low priced manufactured housing seem numbered. David__77 Apr 13 #14

I'm a Council Member (elected) and JustAnotherGen Apr 13 #6

It's part of the destruction of the economy through financialization jmbar2 Apr 13 #7

Let's not rule out another housing crash. twodogsbarking Apr 13 #10

Probably. The vulture funds got a taste of how much they could earn during the '08 calamity - and they want some more peppertree Apr 13 #11

They were trying to buy my home for a while, I guess they gave up. Hikerchick57 Apr 13 #12

Built a house in 88 and still here. It was on the edge of town when we built it. Now it is nearly the middle of town. twodogsbarking Apr 13 #15