Yes, housing providers have been, are and will continue to be singled out.Further, when an investor purchases a property in a municipality and during his ownership a form of rent control is enacted, or if an ordinance is passed limiting property usage; or if exorbitant fees are charged or substantial time is taken to obtain permits, then one or more of the rights that go with the property have been confiscated and as a result the value of his property has been taken and given to someone else.

This is where a property can get confiscated for unpaid water bill. 

Why not buy tin, copper, or any other commodity when gold is what gets confiscated by the government during periods of turmoil historically?

We afford them the opportunity to self organize a schedule, but if that fails and things do not get cleaned, we reserve the right to send in our cleaning service and bill the tenants/roomers;- laundry facilities are to be used between 08:00 and 22:00;- quite hours after 22:00 until 06:00;- intimidation and/or abusive treatment of housemates will not be tolerated and will result in being asked to leave;- belongings left in common areas may be confiscated by landlord  {this came about as the result of a tenant who always left his bicycle in the front hall - despite there being a shed in the yard}.- at some properties we set a cap on the monthly utility consumption and levy a surcharge if the tenants collectively exceed that amount.At our main student rooming house we have a live-in Den Mother which goes a long ways to maintaining peaceful operations with the above basic ruleset.

If the LL knows of this and lets it continue the municipality can confiscate his place.Ha, I was once rehabbing a place across the street from a crack house and gave the cops a key so they could sneak into my place, observe the buys, and then have the druggie arrested once he was out of sight.

I think everything he has should be confiscated, and he should be sitting in jail until he gets sentenced.

They aren't reported to the credit reporting agencies, they are not tracked, nobody tries to confiscate assets.

Setting the hype aside (and there is a lot of hype) Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 has the following provision:"While the act is meant to protect businesses that “stimulate the economy” or are “too big to fail,” thanks to the loopholes in the verbiage, if you happen to hold your money in a savings or checking account at a bank, and that bank collapses, it can legally freeze and confiscate your funds for purposes of maintaining its solvency.

Not that there aren't worse tenants, it's just the "friends" that take over the neighborhood as a result are more than I bargained for.The police did say that if it was deemed a "drug house" the DEA might confiscate the house and everything about it.

Argentina and Venezuela are the two countries where the odds that you property could be confiscated by the government are significantly above 0.As mentioned by @Matt Vaughn, the peso regularly plummets against the US dollar.