Chinese spent $6.1B on US real estate last year

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[–]H3v8 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Affordable housing under communism means that the Party confiscates your 3 bedroom house, brings in 3 full families to live in and survive eating boiled cabbage, and Party members live in dachas eating all kinds of delicacies.

[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like capitalism too. The oligarchs got yachts and airplanes. The middle class struggle for a comfortable life. The poor and exploited get worse conditions than you described. And the exploitation expands to billions of people in other countries.

A lot of capitalist countries also move towards affordable housing by implementing socialist programs