re: What should be done about investors buying up homes?

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In a world in which that would actually happen, I might agree.

We do not live in that world, however.

I still might agree, though.

Here's the problem with additional regulations: there will be people who use them to their advantage. You (royal "you") may not be able to foresee who those people are or how they will exploit the regs, but I will guarantee that it will happen.

And the more the exploitation takes place around government regulations rather than in a (relatively more) free market, the less access the average citizen will have to the same strategies and the less ability they will have to work around them.