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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump signed an executive order to stop federal agencies from helping Wall Street investors buy single family homes. The measure says those investors are crowding out first time homebuyers. Trump signed the order ahead of his address to the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland.
Chapter 2: What executive order did President Trump sign regarding housing?
NPR's Stephen Basaja has more.
The order itself is pretty limited. Trump can't ban the sale of homes to institutional investors with an executive order. But his order does tell several federal agencies that in 60 days, they must stop supporting these sales through things like providing insurance or approvals. And it tells his cabinet to review rules to make those purchases harder.
Last year, institutional investors only owned about 3% of the single-family rental market. But those numbers are much higher in some Sunbelt cities, like Atlanta, where it's around 25%. But some economists say that what's driving up the price of housing is not the number of Wall Street investors. It's that there aren't enough homes on the market. Stephen Massaha, NPR News.
Addressing the World Economic Forum today in Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron said the only way to ensure global stability is through cooperation with allies. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports his speech was a thinly-veiled critique of President Trump's foreign policy and worldview.
While he did not directly address Trump, Macron did not completely shy away from the subject either. He opened his speech by saying, it's a time of peace, stability and predictability to considerable laughter in the room. Macron said Trump wanted to weaken and subordinate Europe with an accumulation of endless tariffs.
That are fundamentally unacceptable, even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty.
Europeans are bracing for Trump's arrival at Davos and a possible showdown over Greenland. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
Physicians in Minnesota are sounding the alarm about federal immigration agents in hospitals. Erica Zurich of Minnesota Public Radio says some patients are worried about being targeted in medical facilities.
Physicians are voicing concerns for patients as thousands of federal officers have poured into the state. Dr. Erin Stevens is the legislative chair for Minnesota's section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She says the presence of ICE agents intimidates patients and obstructs access to care.
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