Dallas Express: ‘Wall Street’ Has Nothing To Do With Home Affordability Challenges

For many politicians on both the left and right, casting “Wall Street” as a villain is about as reliable as a sunset. This is no less true in housing policy, particularly as rising housing costs have led to significant home affordability challenges. Rather than grapple with the challenging nitty-gritty of zoning laws and other regulations that inflate housing costs, some have settled on a false narrative that large, faceless financial institutions are gobbling up homes and pricing ordinary Americans out of the market.