Provide a critique of the opposing argument regarding property ownership and the Portland housing market.
Right.  Stupid, and lazy.  Thanks giving credibility to what I should have put in quotation just after 'get real.'  After those two words, my entry is simply a list of what I hear at pubs, on public transport throughout the southeast neighborhoods of Richmond, and Tabor, downtown, and at dinner parties.  Anyone with half a brain would have the insight to know that owning property isn't free.  There are taxes, the maintenance of the property, (it's constant), and risks  that make home ownership a poor investment for many.  Not everyone is cut out to own property.  As for Portland being a desirable place to live for a  long time; as a native,  my observation of  your assessment of what 'long time ago' would be in the last decade.   Rents have raised faster than incomes can manage to keep up,  and one mistake renders a person homeless, or worse.  For many, 2008 ruined them.  Thanks for your sunny, sanitized rebuttal  of my entry.  Oblivious, expedient, Roman.