Results: Housing Boom!
We're in the heat of a housing boom. Year on year for the last several years, houses have been seeing double digit gains. Skeptics keep predicting the crash, but it just keeps on rolling ...
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1.
Are you happy about the housing boom? Yes
44%
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819 votes
No
56%
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1041 votes
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2.
A lot of focus has been put on blaming foreign investment for driving the prices up. What's your stance? I'm more Capitalist - Foreign investment is ok if it helps drive the economy/home prices up
14%
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266 votes
I'm more NIMBY - I'm ok with a stunted economy if it keeps assets national
16%
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298 votes
Undecided
67%
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1254 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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42 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.75% | 14 | |
| na | 0.27% | 5 |
| n/a | 0.16% | 3 |
| This isn't about capitalism. It's about unsustainable housing costs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| where the hell are the N/A | 0.05% | 1 |
| Nonsense--survey announces facts that are incorrect | 0.05% | 1 |
| House values have NOT gone up where I live (Alabama) | 0.05% | 1 |
| could care less, let them pay, they got money | 0.05% | 1 |
| N | 0.05% | 1 |
| I'm an anarchist. leave everyone else alone | 0.05% | 1 |
| no more foreign buyers who do not even live in the homes | 0.05% | 1 |
| no | 0.05% | 1 |
| it is an election year all kinds of vodoo is being played on the world and economy | 0.05% | 1 |
| I assume you mean in Canada....then housing crashed in the us and is still rebounding now | 0.05% | 1 |
| GREED causes it and we need to reel it in and level things out! | 0.05% | 1 |
| There is no housing boom according to Case Shiller | 0.05% | 1 |
| Bubbles aren't necessarily good...they eventually burst, and people's homes may be worth less than they owe on them | 0.05% | 1 |
| never owned a home | 0.05% | 1 |
| I'm a socialist-it's all a scam | 0.05% | 1 |
| too hard now to buy real estate | 0.05% | 1 |
| I don't know | 0.05% | 1 |
| housing is unaffordable in my area | 0.05% | 1 |
| foreign investment is a scapegoat for the failure of government oversight. | 0.05% | 1 |
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3.
Many keep saying if this housing boom continues, a crash is inevitable. What's your stance on the housing crash? If
31%
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576 votes
When
69%
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1284 votes
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4.
Some want government to get involved in controlling the prices. Your thoughts? The market will bear what the market will bear
35%
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655 votes
The government should nanny the economy
15%
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285 votes
Undecided/Don't care/No opinion
48%
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884 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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36 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.65% | 12 | |
| N/a | 0.11% | 2 |
| na | 0.11% | 2 |
| Nonsense | 0.05% | 1 |
| Never let government get involved, it does nothing we'll? | 0.05% | 1 |
| they should at least look into fishy or subprime mortgages | 0.05% | 1 |
| P | 0.05% | 1 |
| yes they should - need to help our citizens | 0.05% | 1 |
| the government would only make it worse | 0.05% | 1 |
| the Government should start imprisoning the bankers who create this | 0.05% | 1 |
| if that happens it will be done on purpose by the democrats can push socialism and communism on the worlds economy | 0.05% | 1 |
| thet need to get involved in controlling rents and making affordable housing available | 0.05% | 1 |
| Goverments Should Regulate the Prices of Insurance Companies for Housing I don't know. | 0.05% | 1 |
| The government should stay out. | 0.05% | 1 |
| the criminal government should stay out of it | 0.05% | 1 |
| Give some objective choices! Government should help protect the economy from greedy, capitalist predators! | 0.05% | 1 |
| the market will be what it is but there should be some gvt regulations | 0.05% | 1 |
| IDK | 0.05% | 1 |
| If you are buying property in a country you should be legally living in that country | 0.05% | 1 |
| Government should effect effective oversight. | 0.05% | 1 |
| gov will make things worse. already control so much already. | 0.05% | 1 |
| government should better regulate lending, not prices | 0.05% | 1 |
| bgndfd | 0.05% | 1 |
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5.
If government intervened. COULD they actually make an impact? Yes
40%
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753 votes
No
60%
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1107 votes
6.
6.
What is your current living situation? Own
56%
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1043 votes
Rent
34%
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636 votes
Other living arrangement
10%
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181 votes
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