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Its not a matter of having to search for housing types. By referencing apartments, condos, duplexes, you're referencing multi dwelling units with extra steps. I see no point in making the distinction between them. In each case, either one or none of the families in those types of residences own the actual building. Even with a condo, where you do not make a monthly payment on the dwelling itself, you still owe rent, maintenance, HOA fees, whatever you want to call it... to the evil building owner.
On that page, as you say, most of the businesses nationalized in western countries are railways and utilities. You'll find that at least most of these businesses were nationalized because the business itself was failing. Amtrak is a key example of this. US passenger rail lines were going out of business, and the government offered to BUY all the passenger services in the country so the rail lines could focus on more profitable cargo. The end result was Amtrak. What I don't see on that list, are any western countries that nationalized a business because it was making too much money.
When I think of my internal biases against countries like Venezuela, China, and Russia... No, I don't think I will.
Forbes is not a good source? I would ask you to justify that, but I don't really care. I don't care about Forbes either. They are allegedly as center-biased as Reuters, AP, and the BBC though. Perhaps you might want to reconsider your internal biases? Feel free to offer up your own article explaining why the nationwide housing market is in the state it's in.
Your argument was about housing affordability and price gouging, and then referenced that 15 million vacant homes statistic to make your point. My counterpoint is that many of those vacant homes are affordable, people just don't want to live in them for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you should find a statistic that talks about vacant homes in places where people want to live. Or, perhaps you could find a statistic that actually makes your point such as how many homes are available for purchase vs for rent where people actually want to live.
Housing vouchers... So you want to take government money and give that to the landlords rather than do something about the cost or availability of housing?
If you want to end the conversation, you're welcome to not respond.
Congratulations, being so knowledgeable about real estate. Enjoy the dopamine hit. I have never been able to afford a condo, and not working in that industry, I had forgotten that condo associations exist. I know what an HOA is, my home falls under one.
I don't understand nationalization? You don't appear capable of conveying your arguments without falling back on lists of things, like buses, airlines, banks, ferries, and so on. You're also really focused on how intelligent you think you are, and how unintelligent you think I am. Enjoy those happy thoughts. With as intellectual as you are, somehow you missed the point of my previous argument: The reason for the nationalization is what matters. I certainly didn't "ignore the rest", as I even pointed out a specific instance of a nationalization being good for the businesses and the public. However, simply nationalizing a business because it makes too much money is a terrible idea. If you want to argue otherwise, then point out a specific instance in history where such a nationalization occurred and where businesses did not start leaving the country as a result, and then provide the Wikipedia link to back up your argument so I can go read the background on it myself. Don't just lazily give me a link to a Wikipedia article and expect me to find your counterargument for you.
Forbes is corporate propaganda. Cool story. If their article is factually wrong about the housing market, provide a counterargument about the housing market with a reference.
I can't read?
That is awfully nonspecific and fanciful language. If you have something specific which is supposed to follow housing vouchers, I'm curious to know what it is. Bonus points if this plan results in something better than government housing projects of the past.
Disingenuous. You keep using this word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
That one's free. If I am not being candid, or sincere, or pretending to know less about something, please explain how. You keep insulting my intelligence though, so an explanation of how I am pretending to be even more stupid than I allegedly already am will be an entertaining read.