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One of the many issues we face here in Texas

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is the pricing on housing.

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Houses are crazy expensive here, and there's a
couple of

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reasons for that.

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So, first of all, is due to the major
population

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spike, which is unavoidable, right?

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Both Texas and California have the largest
population spikes in

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the past decade, especially around here where
I live.

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But another one too, and it's something that's
being worked

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on is zoning issues.

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There have been zoning laws saying that you
cannot build

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multiplexes and nuplexes in certain areas,
particularly around city areas.

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And this was just something to stimulate the
market back

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in the day, but it's it's not helping us
anymore,

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especially now, especially with the population
boom, and it's something

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that is being worked on, uh, but it will be

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worked on at the speed of government, which is
incredibly

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slow.

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But one thing I really want to uh raise
attention

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to, because one thing that is not being taken
care

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of right now, it seems, one thing that is
being

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unchecked is a problem where we have a few
amount

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of big massive corporations buying up lots and
lots of

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houses with only the intention to turn them
into rental

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homes.

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Uh, this is something where they target
certain areas where

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they know the supply for housing is low, so
they

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know the demand will be high, and they target
those

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particular areas because they know as they
take up the

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last amount of remaining supply, that
increases their demand.

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So it's actually in their corporation's best
interest to target

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the problem areas, the areas where we have
where we

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have a low supply of houses.

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So this is something that that hurts us really
bad,

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something that we just really need to take
care of.