A bipartisan Senate duo is teaming up on legislation that would ban large investment firms from snapping up single-family homes, a measure they say is aimed at the country's housing affordability crunch.

The legislation, known as the Homes for American Families Act, would amend the landmark Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 to make it illegal for investment funds with over $150 million in assets to buy single-family homes, condominiums or townhouses. It doesn’t apply to homebuilders that are constructing units for sale.

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    This won’t do much. Vacancy rates are not high in the US, so the hypothesised mechanism that this would translate to high prices/rents - artificial restriction of supply - is not happening.