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Opinion: Corporations renting out single-family homes? No problem

Lots of families who can't afford to buy a house might still want to live in one. Why would anyone want to make that impossible for them?

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The Toronto Star and United States President Donald Trump don’t agree on much. That corporations shouldn’t rent out single-family houses is one of those rare things.

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In 2021, a Toronto condo developer announced plans to buy 4,000 houses and convert them into rental properties as a solution to Canada’s housing affordability crisis. “It’s wrong on all possible levels” screamed a Star headline the very next day. The plan never came to fruition, partly due to loud and angry denunciations from media and politicians.

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Fast forward to Trump’s January 2026 appearance at the World Economic Forum. “Homes are built for people, not for corporations,” he thundered in Davos. “America will not........

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