This stray news about Trump and residential housing is really curious, no? From WTFJHT:
Trump said he was “immediately taking steps” to ban large institutional investors from buying additional single-family homes, framing it as an effort to address housing affordability. Trump said “people live in homes, not corporations” and blamed high inflation under the Biden administration for pushing homeownership out of reach, but he didn’t specify what legal or regulatory mechanism would implement the ban. The White House also didn’t provide details, and it’s not clear whether such a restriction could be imposed without congressional action.
It seems clear this ‘policy’ would be an effort to get his arms around affordability, but if he follows though at all the implications would be staggering.
Alongside the destruction of federal funding for science, his wanton efforts to destroy the ACA (by pulling what amounts to a massive federal handout to private insurers, yes?), and the weird noises he suddenly started making about Raytheon — which we should see as a proxy for interventions in the mil-industrial complex — it’s clear that his legacy will be a complete restructuring of the US economy.
Some will come out on top, some not, and that will be defined through formal and informal policies. If political parties and forces aren’t thinking strategically on that level, they will lose.