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What does this do to the cost of real estate overall? I'm in no way versed on investing, let alone in real estate trusts, but $900B seems like a lot of money.

Is there an impact on the cost of housing in general?

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REITs encompass more than just housing (there are large REITs for malls, office buildings, prisons, and even data centers). I would imagine that multifamily and student housing REITs increasing in equity value would allow them to use some of that value to take on more projects, thus increasing demand for real estate and increasing the price. But most of the sandboxes that they're playing in aren't individual homes (other than mortgage REITs which represent about 10%, not sure how they would be impacted, I'm not a REIT expert).

Absolutely no impact. This change shouldn't even affect REIT stock prices very much in the short to medium term.

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