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by gowld 1062 days ago
> About a quarter of all single-family homes in the US are owned by investors:

I don't see that mentioned anywhere in the article.

I see "Last year, investor purchases accounted for 22% of American homes sold. This is significantly down from the 80% number in 2020-2021,"

Also, that "80%" number appears to be a mistake that doesn't match the cited source. https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-q3-2021/

It appears to me a misstatemenr of "investor purchasing of single-family homes increased over 80%." which is just silliness comparing the covid dip to the post-covid recovery back to normal.

The billtrack50 article is so incoherent and self-contradictory that it's not worth trying to make sense of it.