Account Closed Sure, the source is UCLA Anderson Forecast economist William YuTo be clear I am not saying we are heading up rather the professor suggests. 

Every day I spend some time in the morning getting up to speed on the latest state of the real estate market by reading various news outlets, listening to economists, looking at data around inflation/inventory/rates, etc. 

Why should a small group (landlords) be forced to bear that cost when society as a whole (if you believe the progressive economists) benefits from the prevention of evictions.  

I have been researching real estate cycles and found real estate economist Homer Hoyt theory of 18 year real estate cycle in the 1930's.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/...This explains it somewhat I think

There is an article in The Economist of November 16, 2019, about the state of government pensions in general and Illinois' pensions (the worst off by far) in particular ("State of denial").

Then I heard an economist say we were at 4% affordability and I sold my townhouse, which I bought for $150k during a previous downturn, for $530k and did a 1031 exchange and bought a 4plex and 2 houses in the Austin area where the prices were depressed because that area had housed a lot of techies who left town when the Tech bubble burst. 

If I buy a 100K house that appreciates 3% over the long run (per study by famed economist who called the last crash, Robert Shiller), in 30 years I have 242,726.25 dollars.

The economic hemorrhaging of Houston is over, and it appears we've bottomed out,'' said Nat Eisenberg, an economist who publishes a monthly newsletter about Houston's financial health.

Project started the same time as Tesla, and is, for several reasons according to the philosopher/economist in the video, a complete failure.