Investor ownership of housing

“Ending Wall Street’s Racket To Drive Up Costs: Hedge funds and huge private equity firms are buying up apartments buildings and single family homes, raising rents and increasing costs for families. I’ll work to pass the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act to put a stop to this predatory practice.”

“Ending Corporate Price-Gouging: Crack down on Wall Street landlords and private equity firms that artificially inflate rent and exploit housing shortages, including by banning the use of algorithms to set rent and by penalizing hedge funds and private equity firms that buy up single family homes.”

“Stop hedge funds from pricing out families. Prevent hedge funds and large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes and pricing Maryland families out of the housing market.”

“Sponsored the End Hedge Fund Control of Maryland Homes Act to protect housing affordability by limiting institutional investors’ ability to buy up single-family homes.”

“He introduced legislation to raise the minimum wage, make schools cell-phone-free, and stop Wall Street from buying up Maryland homes.”

“Prohibiting hedge funds and private investors from buying up Iowa’s family homes and land and artificially raising rents”

“Rent: Increase the amount of market-rate housing, ban private equity companies from buying up tons of houses and driving up costs, and pass the HELPER Act to extend VA-style home loans to teachers, nurses and first responders.”

“Cracking down on corporate landlords and Wall Street hedge funds that are buying up properties and pricing out working families.”

“Roy Cooper has a plan to lower the cost of housing by stopping the bad actors driving up the price for families, including by stopping big corporations and foreign companies from buying single-family homes and preventing companies that make rent-pricing software from using algorithms to drive up rent with landlords. He’d also make it easier to build more housing, driving down the cost for everyone.”

“Stop Big Corporations, Investment Funds and Foreign Companies from Buying Single-Family Homes. Restrict big corporate buyers from owning large portfolios of single-family homes that drive up prices for families trying to buy a home.”

“Roy Cooper’s plan would provide incentives to build more housing, lowering the overall cost of housing. It would stop big corporations, like investment funds and foreign companies, from buying single-family homes. He’d ban the algorithms from companies like RealPage and Yardi that use real-time data to increase rents. And he’d eliminate the unnecessary rules and red tape that make it harder to build houses and drive up costs, and eliminate the tariffs that make building materials more expensive.”

“Roy Cooper supports banning corporate investors from buying single-family homes, ensuring that they can’t drive up prices for families.”

“We need to do everything we can to increase housing supply to reduce housing prices – funding research into cheaper construction materials, massive public-private partnerships to increase supply, expanded first-time homebuyer programs like the VA loan program that helped me to other public servants that serve their communities (like teachers, nurses, and first responders), and stopping Wall Street from buying up homes from all the rest of us. Programs that help working families achieve homeownership work; we just need to expand them so everyone has a fair shot, not just veterans like me.”

“I want to ban large corporations that speculate on our housing stock from owning homes at all.”

“An increasing number of homes in Minnesota are owned by Wall Street speculators who are outbidding hardworking Minnesota families. Peggy believes we should ban large corporate landlords and hedge funds from purchasing single-family homes.”

“Make housing more affordable for Hoosiers by banning international investors and big corporations from buying homes and driving up housing costs.”

“Ending Corporate Price-Gouging: Crack down on Wall Street landlords and private equity firms that artificially inflate rent and exploit housing shortages, including by banning the use of algorithms to set rent and by penalizing hedge funds and private equity firms that buy up single family homes.”

“Prohibiting hedge funds and private investors from buying up Iowa’s family homes and land and artificially raising rents”

“We need to build more starter homes, crack down on corporate landlords and rent gouging, and expand programs that help first-time homebuyers get their start. And yes, sometimes cut rules and red tape that make it harder and more expensive to get homes built.”

“Protect mobile home residents from predatory corporate landlords looking to price-gouge hardworking families.”

“Improve our affordable housing stock in the Pikes Peak region and stop corporate landlords and hedge funds from gouging people with higher rents and home prices”

“Build affordable housing & end corporate landlord price-gouging”

“I also support a federal tenant bill of rights that would level the playing field between tenants and price-gouging landlords. Many of our worst landlords are owned by Wall Street firms and have no commitment whatsoever to our communities.”

“Lower housing costs: Stop corporate landlords from engaging in market manipulation to artificially hike rents, ban Wall Street from buying up housing stock to enrich wealthy investors while making it harder for families to afford homes, expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, repeal outdated red tape that hinders the construction of housing, support legislation to lower property insurance costs, and create a federal task force charged with helping communities use quality, cost-effective options like factory-built “modular” homes to speed up construction timelines.”

“And I will stand up to corporate landlords against unfair evictions that are forcing too many Americans onto the streets.”

“Federal investigation and prosecution of corporate landlords engaged in tenant harassment, fraud, or intentional neglect”

“Protect mobile home residents from predatory corporate landlords looking to price-gouge hardworking families.”

“I also support a federal tenant bill of rights that would level the playing field between tenants and price-gouging landlords. Many of our worst landlords are owned by Wall Street firms and have no commitment whatsoever to our communities.”

“End corporate home ownership by banning the purchase of residential property by hedge funds and private equity firms, and eliminating tax breaks for institutional investors and corporations.”

“Here’s the problem: one third of all the homes sold in the United States last year were bought by investors. Hedge funds and private equity firms can claim tax breaks when buying homes that aren’t available to the rest of us. The tax code is helping Wall Street buy up Main Street and turn the middle class into forever renters. This needs to change now!”

“Step one is to end these Wall Street tax breaks for buying up our homes.”

“Stop Wall Street from outbidding families. End the tax breaks that let investors beat first-time buyers to the closing table.”

“Ending Corporate Price-Gouging: Crack down on Wall Street landlords and private equity firms that artificially inflate rent and exploit housing shortages, including by banning the use of algorithms to set rent and by penalizing hedge funds and private equity firms that buy up single family homes.”

“Roy Cooper has a plan to lower the cost of housing by stopping the bad actors driving up the price for families, including by stopping big corporations and foreign companies from buying single-family homes and preventing companies that make rent-pricing software from using algorithms to drive up rent with landlords. He’d also make it easier to build more housing, driving down the cost for everyone.”

“Roy Cooper’s plan would provide incentives to build more housing, lowering the overall cost of housing. It would stop big corporations, like investment funds and foreign companies, from buying single-family homes. He’d ban the algorithms from companies like RealPage and Yardi that use real-time data to increase rents. And he’d eliminate the unnecessary rules and red tape that make it harder to build houses and drive up costs, and eliminate the tariffs that make building materials more expensive.”

“Curb predatory housing practices Increase transparency and accountability for large corporate investors and landlords receiving federal assistance.”

“Letting corporations control our housing market is what led to the 2008 recession and our current crisis. We need a massive investment of federal resources driven by human need—not real estate profits.”