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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by tamana on Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:56PM (#11511275)
We could test your idea if there were any French or Irish investors. Or even American investors.
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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by hodwik2 on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:32PM (#11511456)
There are, but they're harder to count.

In most studies the Chinese investors are counted by their foreign names. There is no public data on nationality of real estate owners.

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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by throwaway2048 on Saturday April 16, 2016 @05:35PM (#11512343)
Because local governments do everything they can to avoid collecting specific data in vancouver.
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