{"id":1115,"date":"2010-03-30T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2010-03-30T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:05:47","slug":"national-affairs-on-the-ideology-of-home-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/national-affairs-on-the-ideology-of-home-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"National Affairs on &#8220;The Ideology of Home Ownership&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/imgLib\/20100313_Cannatolarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"239\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Affairs, March 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentcannato.com\/\">Vin Cannato<\/a>, has published a nice piece on home ownership in the Spring 2010 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/\">National Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cannato writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 into the  housing market had become far too easy. The result was a dangerous  bubble that inevitably burst \u2014 with terrible implications for the  broader economy.<\/p>\n<p>But this American inclination to exaggerate the virtues of home  ownership \u2014 and to make it far too easy to achieve \u2014 dates back much  further than the past decade. Home ownership has long held a place in  the American pantheon, right up there with baseball and apple pie. It  has been heralded as the source of countless benefits to individuals and  society \u2014 as a way to build personal wealth, provide a positive  environment for child-rearing, encourage people to be active citizens,  and improve neighborhood stability and safety. Yet while some of these  benefits are very real, they are not the whole story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read &#8220;the whole story&#8221; at Vincent Cannato, &#8220;A Home of One&#8217;s Own,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/doclib\/20100317_Cannato.pdf\">National Affairs<\/a>, Spring 2010, pp. 69-86.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[69],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-policy","tag-housing-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-hZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}