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/it... D.R. Horton https://investor.drhorton.com/ Lennar https://investors.lennar.com/ Brookings Institute https://www.brookings.edu/articles/wh... Zillow https://zillow.mediaroom.com/2024-06-... Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/est... https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/de... https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research... US Census ​​https://www.census.gov/construction/n... BUILDER https://s3.amazonaws.com/HW_Assets/Ma... Johns Hopkins Carey Business School https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c... Providence Journal https://www.providencejournal.com/sto... Forestar Group https://app.quotemedia.com/data/downl... Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2020/02/frederick.... Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi... Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop: https://thehustle.co/join-free-2