First of all, that would only apply to companies with a build-and-hold business model, not to ones that develop a property and then sell it off to owner-occupants. Clearly, there do exist people who want to be owner-occupants, so the real issue is how to construct the regulations etc. to incentivize the latter business model.
fair point. i had completely not considered that. especially as we were discussing blackrock which is a buy-and-hold business model.





















I mean sure we can ban institutional investors from buying up houses in your area, but the question is: will new houses stlil continue to be built? or are houses mostly built because the developers intend to sell them to institutional investors that can pay high prices for it?
in any case, the opposite of institutional investment is social housing. you can’t only ban one without also pushing the other.