• stevehobbes
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    10 months ago

    That’s what they’re doing. Foreign students, especially from China, are the ones driving up prices in places like Vancouver. They come to school, mommy and daddy buy them 3 homes because they don’t like the last one, and sit on them because they got assets out of China now.

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      10 months ago

      I’m willing to bet corporations and cashed up landlords are buying up more property than Chinese citizens.

      Ban corporate ownership entirely, and implement a cap of 2 properties per resident, and the housing “crisis” will evaporate overnight.