The Real Reason You Can't Buy A House

Get The Hustle's Business Startup Kit ➡ https://clickhubspot.com/m50a The United States needs upwards of 4.5 million more houses to adequately house the population, but builders simply aren’t building enough. Theories abound as to why, in a market where millions of people are dying to buy a house - any house - builders aren’t scrambling to meet that need. And while many factors feed into this hugely complicated and expensive industry, one has gone relatively undercover: the stranglehold that the biggest homebuilding companies have on the most important asset of all. BIG Newsletter ​​https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-the-land-stupid-how-the-homebuilder D.R. Horton https://investor.drhorton.com/ Lennar https://investors.lennar.com/ Brookings Institute https://www.brookings.edu/articles/where-do-the-estimates-of-a-housing-shortage-come-from/ Zillow https://zillow.mediaroom.com/2024-06-18-The-U-S-is-now-short-4-5-million-homes-as-the-housing-deficit-grows Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/estimating-national-housing-shortfall https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/dl-transcript/m00-1_alexander.pdf https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-areas/working-papers/concentration-homebuilding-industry-trends-strategies-and-prospects US Census ​​https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/historical_data/index.html BUILDER https://s3.amazonaws.com/HW_Assets/Marketing/BD/0324_BD_LocalLeader_Download_ONLINE.pdf Johns Hopkins Carey Business School https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3303984 Providence Journal https://www.providencejournal.com/story/business/real-estate/2019/10/19/increasingly-economists-find-homebuilding-in-fewer-hands/2491165007/ Forestar Group https://app.quotemedia.com/data/downloadFiling Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2020/02/frederick-douglass-accumulation-wealth-land-reformer#:~:text=We%20want%20no%20poor.,of%20their%20heaven%20descended%20right. Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22951092/land-tax-housing-crisis Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop: https://thehustle.co/join-free-2