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EPISODE · Apr 3, 2026 · 45 MIN

Corporate ownership isn't why you can't buy a house

from Think from KERA · host KERA

 The narrative is that private companies are buying up single-family homes and driving up prices — but the data doesn’t really back that idea up. Eric Levitz is a senior correspondent at Vox, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how only about a half of 1 percent of homes are owned by institutional investors, why private equity might actually keep rents down and neighborhoods more diverse, and why he feels like a new housing bill in Congress could do more harm than good. His article is “The ‘populist’ crusade to make the suburbs more segregated and expensive.”  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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