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LuvLoogie

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27. In Chicago, they are also buying up apartment buildings,

Reply to JI7 (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 06:23 AM

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And 3-flats, 4-FLATS, chopping up the interiors of what we're great three bedrooms with nice kitchens and livingrooms into two or three smaller apartments.

It's brutal. The racist greed in this country continues apace.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] PeaceWave Jan 7 OP

When he does something like this, neither Dems or his own party will oppose him. Repubs would scream if a Dem did this. LonePirate Jan 7 #1

I have a feeling Democrats will try and block this. pcdb Thursday #33

How many "institutional investors" are buying single family homes ? JI7 Jan 7 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #3

A LOT---- many things I have read about the problem of the rising cost of housing Jack Valentino Jan 7 #19

I think it's individuals looking to get extra money renting them out JI7 Thursday #21

Welp, certainly that 'happens' but these are not mutually exclusive things AZJonnie Thursday #23

I'm sure it's happening but I think you underestimate the individuals JI7 Thursday #25

In Chicago, they are also buying up apartment buildings, LuvLoogie Thursday #27

Dems had bills to ban hedge funds from single housing market in 2023. blm Jan 7 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #5

MSM didn't cover much of ANYTHING Biden championed. blm Jan 7 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #10

There wasn't mass media coverage but there was some. blm Jan 7 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #17

Biden would have signed the Dem bill. blm Jan 7 #20

If you set rent controls, you dissuade the institutional investors from buying up all the homes AZJonnie Thursday #24

He's NOT doing it. It's bullshit that the MAGATS will eat up. nt Blasphemer Jan 7 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #9

The grifter says things like this... Chemical Bill Jan 7 #7

How much longer, DU? Prairie Gates Jan 7 #11

No kidding. So obvious. n/t demmiblue Thursday #30

I'm calling BS Skittles Jan 7 #12

He has never and will never Johonny Jan 7 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #14

They should require full and immediate divestiture, JMCKUSICK Jan 7 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #18

You mean values would come back to earth some? JMCKUSICK Thursday #22

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Thursday #31

Right, I knew that, I was more commenting on what's happened to housing prices since covid. JMCKUSICK Thursday #32

Trump does this as co-optation - buying off our young people, defusing the issue bucolic_frolic Thursday #26

it has to be trumps idea or it will not be done. rampartd Thursday #28

I don't think he has the authority to make it happen. Who defines them? sinkingfeeling Thursday #29