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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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If you drive around suburbia these days, you might come across entire communities of newly constructed homes with all the amenities of an apartment. But these aren’t your average tract homes. These are subdivisions made exclusively for renters instead of homeowners.
It’s all part of the build-to-rent trend, one of the fastest growing sectors in the housing industry.
On today’s show, we’ll talk about the build-to-rent trend and what it means for the housing market, homeownership and building generational wealth in this country.
For today’s Newsfix, we’re sticking with the housing theme. Amy Scott, our housing correspondent, talks about her biggest takeaways from the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. It’s wild! Plus, what the heck is going on with Twitter’s stock?
Then, we’ll hear from listeners about taxes, Taco Bell and dinosaurs!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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| 0:00.0 | Let's hit it. |
| 0:01.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Amy Scott. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Kyle Rizdall. |
| 0:15.3 | It's Tuesday. |
| 0:16.3 | We are doing a deep dive, the weekly deep dive into a single topic. |
| 0:19.7 | Today it's something called a build to rent, being used to describe one of the biggest |
| 0:23.6 | trends, the hottest trends in the housing market, where well we're going to tell you what |
| 0:28.6 | it means. |
| 0:29.6 | It's a surprise. |
| 0:30.6 | We're just going to keep you waiting around. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.6 | Okay. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm going to spoil it right now. |
| 0:35.8 | Oh, alright. |
| 0:36.8 | A growing number of homes are being built exclusively as rentals. |
| 0:40.9 | These are single family homes built not to buy, but to rent out. |
| 0:45.6 | Billions of dollars are flooding into this industry. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to look at what this means for the housing market, for home ownership, and |
| 0:51.5 | also the ability for folks to build wealth through housing in this country. |
| 0:56.2 | Here to make a smart on this today is Dan Eskitch. |
| 0:58.0 | He's a Senior Research Fellow at the Chem Garden and Policy Institute at the University |
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