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by va_coder 5592 days ago
I rent. There's no shame in renting. Most people whose home was repossed aren't homeless - they went back to renting.

I didn't buy a house because I educated myself about the 3X rule. You should only buy a house that is worth 3X your income.

Did Wall Street screw a lot of vulnerable people? Yes. But people like Elizabeth Warren, who leads the new Consumer Protection Bureau are making substantive improvements to the system.