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"Institutional investors...have squeezed residential markets in many parts of the world, can be expected to pick up a purchasing pace that has turned them into the world’s biggest private landlords and transformed rental housing into a go-to global asset class."
“Institutional ownership threatens to accelerate the trends unleashed by the financialization of housing”
"...automated digital platforms have made it easier and cheaper to track, price, acquire and manage large swaths of homes in multiple communities."
"...automated digital platforms have made it easier and cheaper to track, price, acquire and manage large swaths of homes in multiple communities."
Subscribers: Urban Forum - YIMBY movement pushes a hardline pro-development approach to housing - Trauss instructed the mostly millennial audience to... fight for more supply. theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/va… v.@globeandmail #vanre #AHV #Yimbys #vanpoli 1/
"Trauss – who is funded by private interests, including tech..companies and property developers...lives in San Francisco...she attended a Vancouver city council hearing the day before her talk, to support 21 luxury rental townhouse units...in Shaughnessy." #4575Granville 2/
"“You have a job now,” she instructed her audience, urging them to get organized and get out and support the Shaughnessy proposal...We all need to make sure we get involved in the decision-making process – because otherwise we are not going to get the outcomes that we need." 3/
