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Has Josh Turek fought to keep private equity from buying Iowa homes?

Matches stated direction. He filed a 2025 bill letting cities ban home purchases by private equity funds; it never left committee, and his 2023-2024 bills include none on this.

Josh Turek

His bill on private equity buying homes

Matches stated direction

What they say

In the October 7 debate, Turek said he agrees with President Trump that private equity should get out of housing, something he said he has fought for his whole time in the Iowa Legislature.

“something I've fought for in all of my time in the Iowa Legislature”

What the record shows ·

He filed House File 745 alone on March 5, 2025. It would let cities ban purchases of single-family homes by companies using private equity, hedge or real estate funds from July 2025 through June 2030. It was sent to the Local Government Committee and the bill history lists nothing after that. The Legislature's list of the bills he sponsored in 2023 and 2024 has none on private equity or home purchases.

Limit: "All of my time" goes beyond the record: the one bill we found was filed in 2025, and his 2023-2024 bills, checked by title, include none on this. The bill never left committee.

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  1. Iowa PBS debate, October 7: Turek on private equity and housinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXwr856YrI&t=1159s

    Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    19:19 to 19:28. The quoted words read the same in YouTube's captions and in Iowa PBS's own transcript.

    candidate statement

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  2. Iowa Press Debates: U.S. Senate, transcripthttps://www.iowapbs.org/shows/iowapress/special/14524/iowa-press-debates-us-senate

    Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The host's own transcript of the October 7 debate, the second copy for quoted words.

    candidate statement

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  3. House File 745 (2025), bill historyhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF745&ga=91

    Iowa Legislature · Published Mar 5, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    By Turek; introduced and referred to Local Government March 5, 2025; no later action listed.

    official legislative record

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  4. House File 745, as introduced (document)

    Iowa Legislature · Published Mar 5, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Lets cities bar purchases of single-family homes by companies using private equity, hedge or real estate funds, July 2025 through June 2030.

    official legislative record

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  5. Bills sponsored by Josh Turek, 2023-2024https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/findLegislation/findBillBySponsorOrManager?ga=90&pid=33969

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Bills he sponsored or cosponsored in the 90th General Assembly; no title concerns private equity or purchases of single-family homes.

    official legislative record

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