The Real Reason You Can't Buy A House

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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.

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