Ask for more government, and you’ll see what it’s like to be treated like a second class citizen. 

Separately, the government increased the money supply by 40% with massive government stimulus and that drove the cost of everything way up (labor, materials, everything).

However, my take on this is they did not do sufficient due diligence on many fronts, including city government challenges, operating challenges, infrastructure challenges and marketing challenges. 

Flatline population growth is a sign of a poorly managed state and large or soon to be large, government debts (e.g., Illinois).

These loans do come from banks directly (Fannie/Freddie loans come from the Federal Government) so each bank that offers these types of mortgages might have slightly different requirements. 

This is because most of the financing comes from government programs and they, of course, prefer to keep as much investing as possible within the country.  

A lot going on with the City government.

@Jonathan Greene I'm not sure what you mean by "most will not cash flow as an out-of-country investor" as it might suggest that the cash-flow of a given property has something to do with the nationality or residence of the owner but, in any case, you're absolutely correct that, historically, the net rental yields of LTRs in US cash-flow markets like the Mid-West have been typically higher than in the average European market, although that wouldn't be the case for many other US markets like California or New York.

For various reasons, the US government wants to understand the "beneficial ownership" of certain businesses.

Our speakers are typically local lawyers, CPAs, local businesses, local housing organizations, almost all of which are non-profit, many are government affiliates like Section 8.2 of the four groups that I attend have no dues.