Bernie Sanders: “Wall street is buying up more and more housing in America.”

“I would do low income housing and I would do senior housing. Very serious issue is enormously important. And figuring out how we put a rent. As you may know, Wall street is buying up more and more housing in America. Companies like Blackstone and others, and I think they just cannot buy homes and then raise rents substantially, gentrify entire neighborhoods. I think you've got to deal with that issue.” (12:38–12:42)

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