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What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors
Oh The Urbanity!
Oh The Urbanity! tests the theory that banning housing investors would fix affordability, using Rotterdam's ban as a case study. The video finds mixed results.
Cited as a real-world experiment showing that banning investors did not lower purchase prices and may have raised rents.
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