The president is moving to end Wall Street’s grip on the American Dream.
By Peter Navarro | Washington Post | January 13, 2026
OPINION:
President Donald Trump announced last week that he will seek to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes — a decisive move aimed at restoring the American Dream for working families. Homes, as the president put it, are where people live, not where corporations operate.
That pledge captures a growing national frustration. For generations, owning a home was the clearest marker of success in America — the reward for working hard, playing by the rules and planning for the future. Today, that promise is slipping out of reach for millions of Americans, especially younger families, even as they do everything right. Inflation and higher interest rates are part of the story. But they are not the whole story.