Trump is pressuring Congress to ban investor buying. But Congress says no.
Lawmakers Push Back on Trump’s Proposed Ban
The Wall Street Journal reports Proposed Ban on Investors in the Housing Market Hits a Wall in Congress
The White House is at loggerheads with Congress over one of President Trump’s signature housing proposals, a ban on Wall Street investors buying single-family homes.
Trump officials pressured Congressional Republicans in recent weeks to include the investor ban as an amendment in either of the major housing bills currently winding through the House and the Senate, according to people familiar with the matter.
But lawmakers in both chambers have resisted adding the investor ban, which traditional free-market advocates, Wall Street executives and the home builder industry generally oppose. Any such amendment could derail the bipartisan momentum behind both housing packages that have been in the works for months.
The House is set to vote on its bill as soon as Monday, where it is expected to pass with bipartisan support. The Senate passed a similar bill last fall.
Lawmaker pushback to Trump’s investor ban shows how the White House and Congress favor different approaches to addressing America’s housing crisis, which sent sales last year to a 30-year low. Home values have soared by more than 50% since 2019 and are pricing out many first-time buyers.
Trump announced his own housing proposals this year that were more focused on stimulating demand, including instructing the government-backed mortgage-finance companies to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds in an effort to lower mortgage rates.
The president also issued an executive order last month to restrict the ability of large investors from buying single-family homes. Single-family home investors own a small slice of the overall housing market, but that still equates to hundreds of thousands of homes. Institutional housing investors are concentrated in certain cities like Atlanta and Dallas.
The president directed Congress to make the policy law, since the White House is limited in its ability to implement such a ban unilaterally.
Key GOP lawmakers so far aren’t inclined to do so. House Rep. French Hill of Arkansas, who serves as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, denied the White House’s request to add an amendment to the Housing for the 21st Century Act, a package of various proposals to boost housing supply.
A similar story is playing out on the Senate side, where Trump would have to win over Republicans to get an investor ban amendment included in the ROAD to Housing Act.
An Illegal Executive Order
Essentially Trump admits that he signed an illegal, toothless executive order.
Now Trump is pressuring Congress to get it done. But there is resistance in the House and Senate, so this appears over.
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Somehow, I doubt Gen Z will like this message.
The messaging of this administration on tariffs, housing, and deportations is hopelessly out of touch.
No one mentions what happens when you have to house 12 million people who walk across the border of your country. Wouldn’t you think that might create somewhat a shortage of homes, apts etc???What about it ,Mish?
There are 148 million us households.
12 million walked across.
Let’s say 6 million households.
Increase in households ~4 percent
I wonder what kind of dipshit thinks that people forced to migrate to other countries because they can’t make a living in their own, can suddenly qualify for a large mortgage to buy a house in the US.
Those people crossed the border because they could get hired all over the USA. Many businesses like lower labor costs they can get when they hire illegal immigrants, because they can get more profits. The businesses are the ones that are donating to the Republicans and Democrats who both are not enforcing the law 8 US code 1324 against hiring illegal immigrants.
Super Bowl. Kids are watching. Hard to believe that any rational person can endorse this half time show.
Bad Bunny – Monaco
You don’t know what it’s like to be out at high sea with two hundred hoes
To have the flight attendant suck you off in the sky
Bad Bunny – Tití Me Preguntó
I’m gonna take them all to the VIP, the VIP, hey
Say hello to auntie
Let’s take a selfie, say “cheese,” hey
Let the ones I already fucked smile
The one from Barcelona that came by plane
And says that my dick is fire
AMERIKA FUCK YEA
This is the garbage that passes for music these days that so many listen to. SAD!
Maybe if you were a religious person you would learn that only God may judge others.
what God ??????
Not only is Trump losing Congress, but he’s losing his own administration. Marco Rubio is deliberately blocking Trump from talks with Cuba…. basically Rubio is telling Trump that talks are happening, but the reality is there are no talks happening and Robio just wants to be able to claim the talks failed, without ever holding them.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-is-deliberately-blocking
Little Marco’s revenge!
Just cannot believe anything from this administration.
I could spend all day outlining why all these “fixes” are crap.
So here is a short answer: If Trump likes it, it is crap.
You’ll have to provide a better argument than that, Councilor!
The President needs to declare housing as a national emergency and implement whatever bans and changes he wants. /s
Send in ICE!
I’m starting to hear of lawsuits challenging “commercial” property (ie, rental property) in residential zoning.
100% in favor.
Don’t care if you own one house or a hundred. If you’re zoned residential, then you cannot turn it into commercial use.
Short VRBO?
This is an exceptionally divisive situation…
rich world problems that in reality, ain’t a real problem. who we gonna bomb next, PEDOTUS AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF. amerika, fuck yea
This is in response to Airbnb rentals.
Who are the “investors”?
…Owners of just one to five properties account for 87% of all investor-owned homes, the report found. Another 4% belong to those with six to ten properties. By contrast, large institutional players with portfolios exceeding 1,000 homes control only 2% of the market…
So really, the hated “investors” are largely individuals who are running small landlord operations
Agree with all your points. Could it be that the large institutional players are getting their money for nothing and their chicks for free?
I think those large, institutional (1,000+ home) owners are a great place to buy a home FROM. At least that’s what I’ve seen in my marketplace. They bought homes, rented them out at a small loss and after 5-6 years sold them for no more than they initially paid.
2% can be quite a lot when total numbers are revelved. What are they? Why hide behind percentages?
Covid total deaths over 3 years in the USA were only 1/2% of the total population of the country but that was enough to get everyone up in arms!
They’re obviously just real-estate non-fungible tokens
Does it spell economic promise?
Or does it spell L I Q U I D I T Y ?
always been just 2 sexes at birth. but for thousands of years, there have been cultures that embrace more than 2 genders. anthropology 101.
Trump continues to show his negotiation skills: NOT
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It does not seem that the markets are reacting as indicated in the second link, but if true, this is further reduction in US Canadian relations. I saw in where Trump retaliated with a 25% tariff on imported Canadian vehicles but cannot find confirmation in any government communications.
I’m sorry, what was the latest GDP?
Artificial
This does show pretty clearly that Trump’s influence among Republicans in Congress has dropped significantly
To some degree if trump had influence over congress he would not need to do exc orders on everything. They may agree with what hes doing but not willing to pass laws because they have to get reelected. Or campaign money from wealthy.
They probably figured out it’s just some bullshit he spewed, and has forgotten about already.
Just waiting for the bottom to fall out of the housing market – all these institutional investors will be rushing to the exits at the same time.
The bottom can’t fall out until people can’t make their mortgage payments. That’s not going to happen when unemployment is historically this low.
Layoffs are kicking off big time now. Probably won’t be long…
The number of recently announced job cuts by major employers does not bode well for 2026:
If every one of those 560K cuts resulted in a foreclosure the impact on supply is tiny. The list is long but minor in scale.
The supply is historically low. Real estate is always local so the national supply has to be taken with a grain of salt and as an indicator only. Lots of boomers are sitting on equity and have zero reason to give it up “when the bottom falls out”.
Low supply means prices aren’t coming down. Local markets have seen a small decline. 6% mortgages are historically on the low side.
If we want lower housing prices change the local regulations to make it cheaper to build. That means some building codes and some zoning. Good luck with that so prices remain stuck.
Those things don’t matter. The big national builders have bought up most of the easily buildable land, dividing territory between them. It allows them slow building enough to keep prices up.
I’m on board with changing the law to prevent investors from manipulating the housing market. But the government already destroyed it with their intervention and created the environment that is condusive toward enhancing investor profits. The massive amount of investor involvement is a sympton of the problem, not the root problem.
Only more supply will remedy the housing crisis.
How about if we had less people by removing illegal immigrants (who suck up rentals) making investors want to buy more housing stock to rent. Then restricting legal immigramination?
Oh, and stop thinking of housing as an “investment”.
Stop companies from buying blocks of houses and then rent them out. Or let them buy blocks of houses but they can only sell them, not rent them.
And remove all tax breaks including interest deductions, basis adjustments and capital gains exclusions.
Do this and the price of houses will fall by at least 50%.
Yes there is more than one method of increasing supply, but building is the surest way.
NO! Building uses resources, destroys the land and destroys the ambiance of existing small towns, as many are discovering in CA.
Our state government in Sacramento has passed laws that decreed that towns MUST build a substantial X number of homes (houses/condos/apartments) along what they call the transit corridors, which I believe is about 1/2 mile on each side of a railway or major thoroughfare, in 5-7 year periods. Failure to approve the necessary number of units and allow building to occur opens the door to a more draconia solution where developers can build without township approvals and with more flexibility to override height and density restrictions.
This is destroying the towns that many planted their feet in and litters the skyline with numerous ugly, box like tall buildings, 5-10 stories tall, that block the sun and ruin the view.
You left out depreciation. Thats is what really makes these investments attractive
“Farm Lobby opposes….” Nonsense. Farmers always oppose tariffs, the ‘reasons’ come afterward.
“Farm lobby”? Industrial agriculture is now described as “farm lobby”?
Sounds like complex legislation – defining “large investor”, prohibiting work-arounds, assigning and budgeting for enforcement responsibility, defining penalties, etc. If any president wants to enact something like that, it would take a while – working with allies across party lines. Trump doesn’t have the patience for that, and he’s alienated dems too much.
Trump sold his father s business but does what he proposes would had outlawed what his father was doing?
Devil’s in the details (of the proposed legislation) – which we don’t know.
Right the executive order is unlawful unconstitutional and worthless or basically asswipe
Also the regime is weak and getting even weaker. Republicans control the house the courts the senate and the presidency but cant accomplish much
Pesky voters they have to answer to. Their polices only help the wealthy
U R right Roger Roger I am actually an independent
BlackRock & other financial corporations make political donations.
I find something strange: Buying a 100ft² house in a town with 50,000 inhabitants will cost you between 400,000€ and 600,000€ in my country (my parents paid 480,000€ for a 600m² parcel to be built in their small city). Yet if you want to rent 100ft² it will cost you less than 700€ per months or sometimes a little more.
As far I understand, this means similar purschase prices and less rent than in the United States.
Yet evivting a tenant is often a 6 years long court process and eviction are disallowed during winters.
So why are rents higher in the United States?
Not sure I understand what you are talking about. There is no 100 square foot house, that is smaller than most small hotel rooms. Do you mean perhaps 1000 sq ft or maybe 100 sq meters?
A. Yes sorry. I mean 600ft². About tenant eviction, I m talking about in my country.
Renting 100ft² is 300€/460€ per months though.
6 years to evict a non-paying tenant is insane. I’m sure there is probably a violent black-market solution that some people use.
The question is why rental prices are higher in the United States depsite this.
Most cities don t have rent controls thus leaving the not above inflation rent increase as the only cap.
There are no or little rent controls in the USA. Where I live, Florida, most rental contracts last 1 year. The landlord can raise the price 1 month before the agreement ends, making it virtually impossible for the renter to find a new place to live and move. Because the USA has virtually become a 3rd world country, the laws are all bent in favor of landlords, who legally bribe the elected officials.
50k pop cities ain’t popular really. most big cities in usa with millions of people….., the rental markets are tight. been a landlord since i was a kid. 1980s. in usa depends on jurisdiction how easy it is to evict nonpaying or disruptive tenants. big difference between AZ and SC and NYC for instance.
This isn t so much about rent controls (rent hikes are capped to the inflation and don t apply to new tenants beside a few cities).
Free market prices are simply lower than the Us despite purschases prices being more similar.
Tell me you’ve never had rental property without saying you’ve never had rental property. It is different from state to state but the laws are definitely not landlord friendly.
The only reason rental property exists is for the owner to make a profit. If the profit goes away the rental goes away. It is cheaper to let it sit than have a renter who isn’t paying yet wants maintenance or degrades the walls, floors, and appliances.
Pretty easy answer
Congress is 90+% Traitors to America
Only to Usonians who think of government based on 6th grade civics classes.
Let me draw it for you with crayon: the people has never, ever had the power, because it’s ever reserved for the few, by the few, from the few.
Sorry to blow up your fan fiction written by Freemasons in the 18th century.
The secret lies with Charlotte
wrong. the people are perfectly represented. democracy works. amerikans are assholes. 98% vote uniparty blue and red. the 2% that vote green and libertarians are NOT such assholes. very simple.