Mullen: US housing shortage is between 3 and 7 million homes
Don Mullen · Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324) · Jun 29, 2023 · at 25:54
Don Mullen, founder and CEO of Pretium Partners, explains the macroeconomic housing shortage underpinning institutional single-family rental investing.
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“And whether you look at Stanford, Harvard, Fannie Mae, almost any economic analyst will tell you we're short somewhere between three and seven million houses.”
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