Helping Young Families Achieve Homeownership Dreams: Trump Plans to Ban Wall Street Investment Firms from Hoarding Homes | WPN World People News

Media reports say that U.S. President Donald Trump on the 7th plans to roll out another new housing policy. He told the media that he would ban large institutional investors from purchasing additional single-family homes and urged Congress to legislate on the matter. Media analysis suggests this move is an opening step by the Trump administration to address the U.S. housing crisis, with the aim of helping young families realize their dreams of homeownership.

According to the reports, since the 2008 financial crisis, tens of thousands of single-family homes in the United States have gone into foreclosure. Wall Street investment firms took advantage of the situation by buying these properties and renting them out. At the peak in 2022, investors purchased as much as one-quarter of all single-family homes on the market, a factor widely seen as exacerbating the tightening of housing supply. Housing rights advocates point out that institutional investors often bid with all-cash offers, making it difficult for first-time buyers to compete, further reducing the number of homes available for sale and driving up local housing prices.

The reports also note that Trump’s proposed measure would not only impact real estate investments by private equity funds but also place greater pressure on homebuilders, signaling that the government is actively responding to public concerns over high housing costs. If implemented, the policy would introduce new uncertainties for builders and the broader housing market. However, some media analysts argue that on a national level, these investment firms own only about 3% of residential housing, so the overall impact on the U.S. housing market is likely to be limited.