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尽管“吃穿住行”住排行第三，但对于大部分国民来说，住的问题实为第一。改革开放30年以来，“吃穿”两项国计民生问题应该说得到了很好的解决，“行”只是快慢，每年春运头痛一回，过了春节就好，但“住”至今未能很好解决，百姓与政府都头疼。

报 载，广东省“两会”上有代表提出40岁以前租房、40岁以后买房的建议，立刻遭到网民攻击，典型的愤怒是“请领导们带个头”等等，而许多委员则马上附议支 持，认为建议可行。社会各阶层的反应都特真实，体现了各自的角度和立场。作为无房者，想拥有一套属于自己的房子想法质朴而合理，作为政府及政府的代言者， 想分出层次依次解决问题算是权益之计。可为什么一谈到此问题就冲突了呢？

关键在算帐。中国人和美国人及欧洲人的算术不会有差异，在租与买之间知道何种方式合算。按专家计算，我们在租买之间的比例已高达1：500，远远高于世界1：300的警戒线，简单地表述就是买比租不合算，可中国人还是要买，不想租，原因何在？

中国人根深蒂固的财产文化观，鸦片战争一百五十年来的积贫积弱，让中国人一刻不停寻求安全感，显而易见租没买安全，买的再贵也安全一生，以生活本质而论，安全比昂贵更重要。

西 方社会大都在租房问题上对出租方给予严格限制，法律明显倾斜于承租方，一旦租赁合约签订，无论社会行情发生多大变化，出租方无权提价，无权逐客，即便售房 也必须带着房客。这一法律，给了租客极大的心理安全感。所以在西方，租客一租几十年的例子比比皆是，因为租与买之间的矛盾并没象我们这么激烈。不知政府的 决策们考虑过这一点没有？

More than 40 affluent house hunters from across China will begin a trip to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles on Feb. 24 in search of cheap homes to buy. Their goal: to find investment property and housing their children could use when they go to the USA to study or work. Their budget: $300,000 to $800,000 apiece.

“U.S. house prices are lower now, and we’ll also be looking at low-price houses auctioned off by the courts,” says Zhao Xinyu, a manager at Soufun.com, China’s leading real estate website and the trip’s organizer.

This is the first overseas buying trip for the real estate firm, whose name in Chinese means “search house” and which has organized house-hunting trips inside China. It may not be the last.

“We won’t force our clients to buy,” Zhao says of this first group of bargain hunters, who are paying $3,600 each for the trip. “But if it’s successful, we’ll organize several more trips this year.”

Hunting for businesses, employees, too

Cash-rich China, whose purchases of U.S. Treasury notes help prop up the federal government, is looking to recession-stricken America for more than just houses at the right price.

Chinese companies are on the ground looking for U.S. firms on the skids, says David Putnam, head of Asia for Houlihan Lokey, a Los Angeles-based investment bank that specializes in financial restructuring. They’re looking for people, too.

“We are aware of a number of Chinese strategic players who are interested in acquiring distressed U.S. assets in a number of industries,” says Putnam, who is based in Hong Kong. “They have people looking on their behalf, and they are sending people over to visit.”