[throwaway7033]

> Home ownership is a way to keep people busy fixing the house, working or risk losing a basic need, and living at the edge of their means. Also invested in their own property and less willing to riot and revolt. Don’t get me wrong - I like my home a lot, but the cost is not much less expensive than rent after all the other associated expenses.

"No man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist. He has too much to do." - William Levitt

[xvilka]

With your own house you can do whatever you like, not so much with a rented one.

[CyanBird]

Jokes on him, China today has a nearly 90% home ownership rate, same with the ussr of old