Evie Hantzopoulos

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BlackRock now owns more single-family homes than any landlord in American history. 340,000 houses. Buying 3,000 more every month. They're not buying them to live in. They're buying them so you can't. Here's a number that should make you physically uncomfortable. In 2010, institutional investors owned less than 1% of single-family rental homes in the US. Today it's 5%. Sounds small until you realize that's $120 billion in residential real estate controlled by three firms: BlackRock, Blackstone, and Invitation Homes. They started during the 2008 crash. Millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure. Those homes went to auction. BlackRock and its subsidiaries showed up with wire transfers and bought entire neighborhoods in bulk. In some Phoenix zip codes they bought 90% of the foreclosed homes in a single quarter. Homes that families lost for $80k in 2009 are now rented back to those same families for $2,400/mo. That's the business model. Wall Street figured out single-family rentals generate 12-15% annual returns when you combine rental income with property appreciation. Better than the S&P average. With near-zero rates from 2009-2022 they borrowed billions at 2-3% and bought assets appreciating at 8-12%. Free money machine. And they don't even need prices to go up. They just need you to keep paying rent. When you can't afford a down payment because institutional buyers inflated prices, you rent. From them. The same people who made buying impossible made renting mandatory. NAR data shows first-time homebuyers fell to 24% of all purchases last year. Lowest in 43 years of tracking. Average first-time buyer age is now 38. In 1981 it was 29. A whole generation priced out and funneled into rental contracts held by Wall Street. It gets worse. They're expanding into build-to-rent now. Purpose-built neighborhoods where every single home is a rental. Not converted. Designed from the ground up to never be sold. Lennar, second-largest homebuilder in America, sells 20% of its new construction directly to institutional landlords. Houses built for Americans, sold to Wall Street before the foundation is poured. How to position around this. You can't beat them. But you can own what they own. Invitation Homes (INVH) is the largest single-family rental REIT. American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) is number two. When institutional landlords raise rents 8%/yr and vacancy rates sit at 2%, these companies print. If the trend disgusts you, at least profit from it. For builders feeding the machine: D.R. Horton and Lennar. They sell to institutions at full price with zero marketing cost. Guaranteed bulk buyers for inventory. Sweet deal if you're a shareholder. Dystopian if you're a 32-year-old trying to buy your first house. And if you believe the political backlash eventually restricts institutional buying (Oregon and Minnesota have already proposed legislation), homebuilders focused on individual buyers in affordable price ranges stand to benefit most. i track institutional real estate acquisitions and rental REIT positioning through tradevision. the numbers are accelerating. blackrock's home-buying subsidiary just raised another $4 billion for 2026 acquisitions. they're not slowing down. (wall street crashed the housing market in 2008. then they bought the houses. now they rent them back to the people who lost them. nobody went to prison for any of it. interesting times.)

Opening Picnic/Unveiling of Chloe Seibert's Twin Urns @queensbotanicl on March 29 at 2 pm. More: tinyurl.com/3ps63hhx

As a survivor of rape myself, I am horrified at how quickly men & women are prepared to throw another victim/survivor under the bus. Unless YOU are a survivor, you have no idea how difficult it is to come forward. How your brain works to make yourself feel like IT WAS YOUR FAULT.

This is a picture of Tehran now. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, girls in schools, pets, regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Despite what NYT article says, @NYCpublicschools is pressing ahead with large scale adoption of AI, despite growing parent & teacher opposition. They just posted links to an array of AI products for teachers to use. nytimes.com/2026/03/04/nyr… cc @troyclosson @JamesBarronNYT

Now that the Queens Bus Network Redesign is six months old, the @MTA wants to know how you feel about the new routes and where the agency might be able to make improvements. If you have a few free moments, please fill out the survey at mta.info/qbnrsurvey1.

It doesn’t matter whether Khamenei is dead or not. What matters is how insane it is to live in an era where one country can assassinate the heads of other states with total international impunity. The fact that this precedent is now fully normalized is fucking nuts.

Our community deserves a seat at the table long before anyone, including the mayor, makes headlines in the Oval Office.

Councilwoman @juliej_won is critical of @NYCMayor's revival of Sunnyside Yard, which she calls a "failed housing project." "Our community deserves a seat at the table long before anyone, including the mayor, makes headlines in the Oval Office"

the entire community stood up to oppose the sunnyside yard (not yards) development because it was not going to be affordable the week before the covid shutdown in early march 2020, the edc presented to qcb2 but vishaan chakrabarti was too scared to even show up to the meeting

Pl sign our petition @NYCMayor & @DOEChancellor asking for a moratorium on AI use in schools until rigorous guardrails established to prevent documented risks to student cognitive skills, critical thinking, creativity, privacy, mental health & environment actionnetwork.org/petitions/plea…

It's official: I'm in. I'm running for New York State Senate District 12. 🌐 Join us today: linktr.ee/ragaforqueens.

Who gets the nomination in a special election and how does it get decided? Why did Rana run without the county or WFP lines? I dig into some of this in my latest post: naureenakhter.substack.com/p/a-bitter-los…

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Why are charters schools being advertised in the Queens Public Libraries @nycmayor @NYCMayorsOffice @ZohranKMamdani @QPLNYC @DRichardsQNS ? Aren’t @NYCSchools good enough? This ad seen in Jackson Heights branch today @CMShekarK @voteshekar

Mamdani is now signing an executive order that’s a “sweeping reaffirmation” that bars ICE from entering NYC property without a judicial warrant — including schools, shelters, hospitals, and jails. This upholds the city’s existing sanctuary laws.

"Helen of Troy can't be black!!!! The historical inaccuracy!" My guy, she was born from an egg after her mom banged Zeus who was disguised as a swan. Its a myth. Its why there's a cyclops and bunch of other things not real. The race of the actor for a fake person doesn't matter

Friends, this is it. Join our last Sunday to get out the vote! Feb 1st, join me for canvassing with @NantashaWMS (12-3pm) or our Youth Canvass with free chai (3-6pm). Low turnout = your voice matters even more. Let’s do this: bit.ly/knockforrana

Astoria & LIC, today is the day. We’re out doorknocking with the Muslim Democratic Club and Council Member Julie Won. This race comes down to turnout, and every conversation matters. Sign up to knock with us: bit.ly/knockforrana Vote early today or tomorrow. #AD36

WE DID THAT Because of you, your $5, $25, $100, your texts to friends, your belief, our campaign just received public matching funds. That means every in-district donation was multiplied and turned into real power for Astoria & Long Island City. Now is the time to vote! Feb 3.