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Markets unaffected by these policies experienced bubbles, too.

There were also credit crises in other countries that have no such home ownership policies or agencies. Also, there was a similar crisis in US commercial real estate. Moreover, there was no crisis in Canada, which does have similar home ownership policies.


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