Trump targets institutional investors in affordable housing push


Investors of all sizes accounted for about 30% of single-family home purchases in the beginning of 2025. — Bloomberg

PRESIDENT Donald Trump said he would move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes, the latest proposal from the administration to address housing affordability ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

“People live in homes, not corporations,” Trump said in a social media post Wednesday announcing the effort, adding that he would expound on the plan and other “Housing and Affordability proposals” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month.

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