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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

President Trump says he's moving to ban large companies from buying single-family houses.

But does the White House have the power to do this?

And is it really what ails the American housing market?

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues

on the journal's editorial pages, columnists Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassel. Today's news story begins,

as so many often do, with a truth social post from President Trump. Here was from Wednesday.

I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional

investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it.

People live in homes, not corporations. I will discuss this topic, including further housing

and affordability proposals and more at my speech in Davos in two weeks, unquote.

Alicia, to start with, give us a sense of how big institutional investors are in the United

States housing market.

That might give some perspective on the size of what the president here is suggesting

as a problem.

Well, the top 24 single-family rental

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