Home-Buying Needs a Gut Renovation

AUG 11, 202229 MIN
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Home-Buying Needs a Gut Renovation

AUG 11, 202229 MIN

Description

Homeownership has been synonymous with the American Dream since the New Deal. But after the 2008 financial crisis, millions of low-cost "starter houses" were bought for a song by private equity giants who use them as financial instruments rather than places to live. So what's a homebuyer to do? Journalist Aaron Glantz, author of Homewreckers, joins Virginia to analyze whether there's still hope for ordinary homebuyers.