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National Affairs on “The Ideology of Home Ownership”

March 30, 2010
By Kevin R. Kosar
National Affairs on “The Ideology of Home Ownership”

My friend, Vin Cannato, has published a nice piece on home ownership in the Spring 2010 issue of National Affairs. Cannato writes, Through a combination of heedless public policy and reckless lending, the benefits of home ownership had come to be exaggerated; the risks and drawbacks had been obscured from public view; and entry...
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