• buddhabound@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Or investment groups are still buying houses because they don’t have to pay the same rates that individuals would, and then they’re turning them into short term rentals. I just saw an article a couple of days ago about how investors bought a huge chunk of the residential market this year. For all we know, this is just more of the rich grabbing our resources to consolidate them into profits later when we’ve all been squeezed out.