Waylon Wong
speaker
548 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 6d ago
Waylon Wong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When house prices in general started to rise a lot in the early 2020s, politicians from Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren to Republican Vice President J.D.
Vance would blame institutional investors.
Also, Stephen says corporate landlords actually tend to reduce rental prices by bringing more rental homes into the market.
That matters because about a third of American families rent.
The large home investors can also finance for renovations in a way that's hard even for homeowners.
They also build a fair share of new home construction.
About one in every 12 new houses were built specifically to rent them out in 2024.
Build to rent.
So Laurie worries the law restricting corporate ownership could backfire and make housing more costly, especially if large institutional investors would have to sell these newly built homes.
Adrian says that rental homes may allow families to live in neighborhoods they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford.
That said, if renting allows low-income families who move to neighborhoods with better schools and more social support, that can pay off hugely for the children.
Research from Harvard economist Raj Chetty and others shows enormous benefits for children from low-income families who mix with families from different backgrounds with no detrimental effects for the children from the higher-income families.
In fact, the CEO of the parent company of a major rental firm, Progress Residential, has a similar story.
He grew up renting in a neighborhood his parents otherwise wouldn't be able to afford, allowing him to go to a better school.
And he says that's part of what drives him to make more rentals available.
Balancing all of this, Stephen generally supports build-to-rent housing.
Plus, many tenants have good experiences with big landlords and management companies.
Amanda Cantrell ended up going with one.
We asked her to rate her experience out of five stars.
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