Bear in mind how the government and general populace are treating landlords in NYC right now.

I guess it's clear from his thoughts that he doesn't think Blackstone and so on are artificially inflating prices, or that the weakening middle class, or middle class debt (student loans, for example), or that our economy 70% based on consumer spending (read: a populace that can afford to buy things) are weakness to cause one to steer clear of long term holding of real estate.

When I am asked about this today, I point out that the Memphis populace may have a natural pre-disposition towards renting single family housing rather than the upward mobility of owning and buying like you might find elsewhere since it is estimated that 50% of the population rents their housing.  

I think they exaggerate the numbers because the "major" outbreak in Western Africa only affects 0.009% of the total populace of approximately 50 million people.The effected area encompasses some of the poorest regions in the world.

There are certain high crime areas where vacant properties are targeted by the local populace.

Yeah, but if we had more opportunities for free or low-cost decent higher education (I'm not talking community college), then maybe we'd have a more intelligent populace and this country could thrive again.As it stands now, there's too much welfare entitlement and ignorant white trash in this country, which brings us all down...

If they're still a threat to the populace, they shouldn't be free.

Landlords are middlemen between housing and the rest of the populace.

The small Sicilian town of Gangi is nestled in a lovely central part of the island and needs new residents to replenish its dwindling populace.

a local community should be allow to set its preferred density so that all density options are available to the populace.