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In praise of renters : Comments
By Andrew Leigh, published 8/5/2009Over the years, the benefits of home ownership have been mythologised by social commentators.
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Or, to put it another way, who are the renters making rich?
Renting out a house is a great way to increase your capital. Someone else pays off your house for you, you end up owning a house you didn't pay for, and the renter ends up with nothing.
The author makes some (superficially) valid points. Perhaps the answer is to change the mindset.
Just because you own a home, doesn't mean you have to live in it.
As the gap between wages and house prices continues to widen, our children have Buckleys of owning their own homes anyway.