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		velik_m on Oct 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does Spain Have the World's Highest Concentrat... Yes this bothered me too, so i checked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Europe, with that kind of doctoring of data for the sake of the story, how can we trust the rest of the data?

ccozan on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

For Europe best is to look at Eurostat:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

As you can see, Romania has the highest rate of homeownnership, and not Spain.

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