• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    That’s actually fewer homes that Blackstone owns than I would have thought.

    Not that it makes things any better, I just would have expected the number of homes Blackstone owns to be in the millions by now. Maybe they have subsidiaries that are buying up homes under different names.

    Obviously, there are plenty of other corporations that own thousands of homes so it doesn’t make much of a difference.

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      1 month ago

      Add in other corps:

      20% of all property purchases are for investments: 65% of those properties purchases are by people who own 10 or more properties.

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        1 month ago

        Doesn’t shock me at all. Like I said, it doesn’t make much of a difference which corporations actually own them. But I’m still surprised because if someone had asked me how many homes Blackstone in specific owned, I would have guessed a lot more.

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      1 month ago

      A more functioning government would have immediately dropped the hammer on said business practices.

      We live in a Corporate bordello.