00:00Wall Street is buying houses faster than regular people can even click on the listing.
00:04That's the problem President Trump says he's trying to stop with a new order aimed at big real estate investors.
00:10Think of the housing market like a grocery store.
00:12Families walk in with normal-sized carts, but giant investors roll in with forklifts and take out all the shelves at once.
00:18Trump says that's why young buyers feel like there's nothing left for them.
00:22His order tells federal agencies to figure out who counts as a big investor,
00:25look at ways to stop them from buying single-family homes and check whether these gold purchases are hurting competition.
00:31Critics of Wall Street say these firms buy too many homes, push up prices, and make it harder for families to build wealth.
00:37But the investors themselves argue the opposite.
00:39They say the real problem is that the country doesn't have enough homes in the first place,
00:43and pointing fingers at them won't fix that shortage.
00:45The executive order makes exceptions for neighborhoods built specifically for rentals,
00:49and it doesn't force companies to sell what they already own.
00:52Even so, when Trump first mentioned the idea, stock prices for major housing investors dropped,
00:57showing how tense this fight actually is.
01:00So all of this leads to one big question.
01:02Should families get the first shot at buying homes, or should big investors keep playing in the same market?
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