You made a remark about millenial home ownership that, according to data collected by the relevant agencies, doesn't appear to be correct.
I just pointed out that millenial home ownership is only a little behind the age-adjusted levels for the last 4 "generations".
I think this is important - if the data is correct, then it's essentially a myth that millenials have no access to home ownership, and there's a certain kind of psycho-social danger to this idea being believed (particularly among millenials).
It is of course possible that the data is incorrect, or misleading, and I'm interested in that possibility, because the "story" about millenials and home ownership is widespread, and perhaps we should be alert to the idea that the data is not representing reality correctly.
Then you mentioned corporate residential real estate investment, which I certainly agree is a problem, but that seems orthogonal to the basic question of whether or not millenials do or do not own housing at roughly the same level as prior generations. I wondered if you saw some specific reason to mention it. If it were true that they do not, then certainly corporate RE investment could be a part of the reason. But it appears that in broad terms, they do, and so although it would be nice to end corporate RE investment somehow, it doesn't seem to be a particularly large problem.
If you don't think these rental investment corporations are a problem, then I won't gainsay that. I just have some local IRL experience in the matter, and have seen it discussed.
I'm not in a debate. I made an offhand comment, which was not unique to me (it has been bandied about in popular culture for quite some time), you called it "false," in a fairly harsh manner, and I didn't attack back, because I like to behave myself, here.
If my offhand comment offended you, then I am sincerely sorry, and you have my apology, but it won't change the way I think or interact, and I'll likely offend again. I'm a decent person, and don't mean to offend, but I also have the approach I have, and some people find it offensive. I'm not sure why, because no one ever takes the time to explain. They just attack. I've learned not to attack back, and make my best guess at what their problem was. Given that data (my guess), I may (or may not) choose to modify my approach in future interactions.
In the aggregate, I yam what I yam, and some folks like it, and some folks don’t. Seems most folks find me easy to get along with.
No worries. It's all good. Have a great day!