I don’t know the answer but the issue you bring up includes Blackrock, hedge funds, Invitation Homes, and other mammoth investors locking up America’s single family housing stock and it is a very big and very socially disruptive issue. It’s going to require Congress to figure out how to ban the practice so that Americans aren’t crowded out of the chance to own a home.
Some of these funds are rumored to be fronting for China’s national investment program adding yet one more problem with the practice.
I don’t think the answer is very, very simple.
These same hedge funds and equity groups got into buying up all the security companies that were working for the US government overseas in what they call ‘high threat areas’. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, etc.
Some of those contracts are worth about $800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 a year, every year.
All they do is create a shell company, put a few retired Generals on the roster and VOILA, they get the contract. Then they go about gutting the whole thing. Lowering pay and cuts everywhere. When the talent pool starts to get shallow because of pay, they cry to the agency they’re contracted with that they need to lower standards to be able to recruit and then they cut pay some more.
So, my simple answer....
1. Prohibit them from obtaining any contract, in any way, that provides any type of construction, security or logistical support to any government agency.
2. Prohibit them from being able to apply for Section 8 contracts, leaving them having to compete on the open market instead of getting to suck off the government teat every month and never have to worry about a rent check being late.
3. Prohibit private equity from being able to profit from the taxpayers via government contracts.
Pretty simple to me. When they buck, when they sue, when their puppets in Congress storm the White House..put them all on tv and force them to explain themselves.
And if you’re Pres Trump, make sure that you help find and support good candidates to take out the greedy incumbent puppets.