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Trump Orders Ban on Institutional Investor Home Purchases

Is Trump's executive order a way to restore the American Dream, a stolen Democrat idea or a means to worsen the housing crisis?

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Trump Orders Ban on Institutional Investor Home Purchases

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Above: Two-storey homes in Thousand Oaks, California, on Jan. 14. Image credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

The Spin

Republican narrative

With this executive order, the president has sealed a decisive victory for middle-class America. For too long, corporations have been allowed to gobble up the single-family housing market, pricing ordinary Americans out in the process. By tilting the scales back in favor of everyday citizens, the administration has addressed this imbalance and restored the American Dream of homeownership.

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Donald Trump on Truth Social

Democratic narrative

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Democrats may have found themselves a new admirer in President Trump after his latest stunt. Trump's ban on large institutional investors from acquiring single-family homes is only praiseworthy insofar as it was a Democrat proposal to begin with, one that Republicans hurried to block when Senate Democrats tabled it last year.

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Libertarian narrative

Rather than alleviating the housing crisis, banning institutional investors will only exacerbate the situation. At present, large institutional investors account for only a fraction of single-family homes nationwide. The real culprit behind rising prices, therefore, is not large corporations, but exclusionary zoning laws and regulatory barriers that strangle new construction and the housing supply.

Reason.com The Washington Times