They Aren't Trying to Lower Home Prices (Here’s Why)
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Join Ken and Danielle McElroy as they pull back the curtain on why policymakers are prioritising buyer qualification over price declines to protect the economy's financial backbone. Discover why the "on-ramp" to homeownership is changing and what this shift toward extreme financing means for your long-term real estate investment strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | The talk of Davos this week was, can you fix housing without breaking homeowners? |
| 0:09.8 | What he actually said was we are not turning into a nation of renters, essentially. |
| 0:14.8 | So this is great because you guys know, we've done some videos on this. |
| 0:18.7 | So this is very exciting, I think. |
| 0:20.5 | It would be very interesting to see what happens next. |
| 0:22.9 | What do you think? |
| 0:23.8 | Yeah, you know, everyone talks about that housing is unaffordable, |
| 0:27.2 | but I think in order to balance this, |
| 0:29.9 | you have to manage the payment and the down payment and not the prices. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.9 | There's only a couple things that are going to work here, honestly. |
| 0:40.2 | It's financing or supply. |
| 0:43.2 | And the interesting thing is, as we all know, we talked a little bit about these |
| 0:48.2 | $100 billion mortgage back security that he told Fannie and Freddie to do, which actually got |
| 0:55.0 | rates down under six. That is good. Yeah. Now, that's good. And then he went after the, |
| 1:00.4 | you know, Wall Street a little bit, too, and said, oh, yeah, these big, these big companies are |
| 1:05.2 | buying up. You know, the reality is, is there's 133 million households 133 million and somewhere between five and six |
| 1:15.9 | hundred thousand are owned by you know public institutions or you know wall street let's say so |
| 1:20.3 | it's a small number it is a great topic and I think it was very very interesting but it but it is a very, very, very small number. |
| 1:29.0 | It's like 6% or something of the whole housing stock. |
| 1:32.1 | Not to say that they don't compete against homeowners. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm not saying that. |
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