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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
There are plenty of countries that prohibit or restrict foreigners from owning property, for a range of reasons ranging from the somewhat-understandable to the downright-xenophobic, so the idea of restricting ownership isn't, on its face, crazy.
But since it's Ron DeSantis, my guess is that he's selling a favor for his backers (probably developers who want to building housing on former farmland but keep getting outbid by foreigners, or simply don't like the higher prices) by wrapping it in his usual racist and bigoted spiel.
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Yep, there certainly are good reasons at times:
In drought-stricken Arizona, fresh scrutiny of Saudi Arabia-owned farm’s water use | PBS NewsHour
But yeah, where DeSantis is concerned I do wonder about motives.
(Also yes to other countries doing this -- my dad is not actually allowed to own "his" house in Thailand, for instance.)