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Comment by CPLX

3 days ago

It's not the opposite of a problem, it's orthogonal.

In this particular instance, what's happening is that it's crowding out and destroying diversity in the home builder market.

The model is built to rent out, and it's taking capacity out of the build-to-sell market. It's putting regional and smaller homebuilders that have traditionally provided most of the housing out of business because of their greater access to national capital.

We are seeing this everywhere in the economy. If you have access to Wall Street capital, you can put basically everybody outside of business and then set the price. That's exactly what's happening.