Read an excellent paper about the destructive impacts of this in Vancouver's housing mkt http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616718.2015.1119776?journalCode=reuj20#.VoLommSrT-Y …https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/681808297159176192 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
@kimmaicutler Another perspective is that it allowed a huge influx of Chinese seeking greater prosperity, and has spurred a tremendous...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @MarketUrbanism
@kimmaicutler ...condo building boom, which has made up for the priciness of the single-fam detached market.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@MarketUrbanism I'm a fan of it being used to spur new development, but not parking it in vacant existing units.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler
@kimmaicutler There isn't a ton of evidence that that's happening on a large scale.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MarketUrbanism
@MarketUrbanism in Vancouver, there is. Still early days for the US, also there is no effective way of tracking it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@kimmaicutler What's the evidence that it's happening in Vancouver on any large scale, regionally and not just in isolated micro-markets?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@MarketUrbanism should read the paper. What's the evidence it's not happening? We literally do not have any way of proving who is where1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@kimmaicutler I admit we do not know. But as you acknowledged, there are two things going on here in various degrees – one is that Chinese..3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@MarketUrbanism I don't think it's specifically Chinese, it's any kind of external capital that is parked on rising land values w/out
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