on. and in fact there is. the wall street journal found that private equity firms like black rock or purchasing entire neighborhoods of single-family homes and turning them into j rentals.e in houston for example, big investors are now accounting for a quarter of home purchases. what does this mean for the country? pedro gonzales is the associateo editor at chronicle. we are happy to have you on tonight. thank you so much for coming on. the bedrock of americanhr democracy was always independent, they own something they are invested in the country. and that is changing and we are becoming a high speed nation of renters. what are the applications of this? look, eisenhower said in his farewell address that you, and i, and our government must avoid the impulse to live only for today. for plunder for our own