They can certainly compliment each other, but they have fundamentally different goals and structures.There is a lot on the site about Section 8.

It's hard to get a reliable read on the market and understanding what is due to the COVID situation vs. fundamental supply/demand shifts. 

America is the greatest country in the world with the strongest fundamentals in place.

Three reasons: (1) the federal government is still in the driver's seat with Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, so those mortgages will get deferred or worked out in some way; politicians got killed last time for the foreclosure rate, so they are not going to let it happen again and (2) the fundamental structure around loan origination is a million times better than it was in the run up to 2008; between 01 - 07 you did not need a license to originate a loan once Dodd-Frank passed and licensing became the standard a lot of bad loan officers got out of the business, and (3) Banks also tightened up their verification standards ( I know the standards are still relatively loose) but 4506T forms were not used between 01 - 07, so people lied about their income; after 2008, banks started to use 4506T forms to verify tax returns. 

I am sure some folks have some ideas of where that next area with similar fundamentals may pop up. 

Based on fundamentals like population growth and scrappage, the US needs to build about 1.5 million new housing units a year, a level that was only briefly reached before the pandemic hit our shores.

Bookkeeping for Flips is fundamental.

Fundamentally comes down to philosophy on income inequality.Also everyone pays capital gains tax without deferral on other investments and securities.

This is the fundamental problem I have with Wall Street who takes too much fees off the hard-working efforts of the middle class.

You see in real estate for some reason we seem to think that we can deny all business fundamentals and that somehow, our situation is different.