What The Government Should Do To Fix The Housing Problem - Dave Ramsey Rant
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:06.6 | This is actually one of the few times you're held here Dave say that the government could actually do something about this. |
| 0:14.0 | Okay. |
| 0:14.9 | One is we've got large REITs, real estate investment Trust and American corporations and Chinese corporations buying |
| 0:24.4 | thousands and thousands and thousands of single family homes and taking them off the market |
| 0:30.5 | and putting them up for rent. I mean like five or six hundred thousand in the past few years. It's a lot. It's not just a few. So one thing |
| 0:41.7 | you could do, and I'm really against limiting free enterprise, but when the basic use of a |
| 0:49.3 | single family home is for a family to get a toehold in the marketplace and to build wealth and to have |
| 0:56.2 | a stable place to live. |
| 0:57.4 | When that's being affected by foreign organizations and by out of control capitalism, then |
| 1:04.9 | you've got to put some limits on that. |
| 1:06.9 | So some kind of a stoppage, stop that. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.8 | Another thing that's draining the market is Airbnb's. |
| 1:23.8 | Tens of thousands of single family homes, condos, co-ops, whatever, are all. They're bought by people at unrealistic prices only because they're turning them into a |
| 1:29.6 | hotel and they're making tons of money and people buy an 8, 10, 20, 15 of them at a time |
| 1:35.6 | and and that did not exist 20 years ago. |
| 1:40.0 | Okay. |
| 1:40.9 | And so some kind of a limitation, not necessarily a complete stopping of that, right, |
| 1:47.7 | but limiting the number of units that go off the market so that a young couple getting married |
| 1:53.0 | have a house to buy instead of it turning into an Airbnb because somebody bought it |
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