Key Takeaways Investor activity in the housing market can make it more difficult for ordinary homebuyers to compete for homes. President Donald Trump provided the first details of his plan for "aggressive†reforms to the housing market on Wednesday. Trump wrote in a social media post that he is taking steps to ban large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes. He also said he is asking Congress to write it into law. "People live in homes, not corporations,†he wrote. Why This Matters for t ...