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Podcast: The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families
Episode: Should The Government Tell You Who You Can Sell Your Home To?
Description: Attempts to "fix" the housing crisis by restricting who can buy homes may actually violate property rights and make housing problems worse — not better. There's growing political pressure to ban large corporations and investment firms from buying single-family homes, based on the idea that investors are pricing families out of homeownership. While this argument sounds appealing, it overlooks basic economic realities and risks harming the very people it claims to protect. In this episode of The Way the World Works, we examine the proposal to restrict who homeowners are allowed to sell their property to an...