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The American Dream Is Being Bought Out‐One Rental at a Time |
2025-08-01 |
[ZERO] Private equity isn’t just moving into housing—it’s taking over. With 30 percent of U.S. home sales now going to corporate investors, the idea of owning a home is slipping further out of reach for everyday Americans. They’re not buying to sell. They’re buying to hold, to rent, and to control. This isn’t a housing cycle. It’s a strategic seizure of the foundation of middle-class wealth. And if Wall Street’s leverage dries up, the resulting crash could be faster and more brutal than 2008. In this video, Taylor Kenney breaks down how it’s happening, why no one is stopping it, and what you can still do to protect yourself before the next domino falls. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#7 Pottsville, PA also has the Yuengling Brewery - a great place to visit. It is also about 100 miles from Philadelphia and about 120 miles from NYC. It is in Schuykill county which, over the past 100 years lost coal, railroad and textile industries. Population has decreased from about 240k to 130k in the past 100 years. I am not a paid marketing agent of the county. There are quite a few other counties like this in the US where corporations could find lots of affordable housing for their employees. |
Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-08-01 17:39 |
#6 Pottsville sounds like a great alternative to Temecula, CA. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-08-01 12:57 |
#5 This might explain California's astronomical housing costs. I need an explanation because so many people are leaving the state that I'd expect costs to decline. But then I still don't know why the traffic is so bad and it's completely beyond me how anybody can pay the rent for some of these places. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-08-01 12:54 |
#4 Wait — Pottsville is real? I thought it was just an imaginary location for the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon. My learning for today, for sure! |
Posted by: trailing wife 2025-08-01 11:28 |
#3 we need more large employers to move to places in the US that have lost population in the past 50 years there are lots of these and they already have roads, water, sewer and gas infrastructure e.g., Pottsville, PA which has about half the population it did in 1930 |
Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-08-01 10:26 |
#2 A Levittown home was about 1000 square feet. Three bedrooms, a bath, small kitchen, living/dinning room with water heater and furnace (no A/C). Based on a 1950s silver dollar now worth $28 dollars, that would be $280K for the same today. Developers want to build HGTV tricked out homes. Governmental people prefer those too for property tax returns all the while talking about 'affordable' housing. It's greed and envy all around. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-08-01 07:44 |
#1 This is where the usual white supremacist suspects start blaming DA JOOOOOOZ! Fact check: Blackrock is not owned by Jews, it's owned by whoever wants to buy shares. So go get some. |
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-08-01 05:03 |