[michaelje]

It doesn’t have to be a good or bad investment. It can be something you pay for and use, and it provides actual utility. We could make owner occupiers first class citizens in our own society, having housing as primarily for housing people, with investment purposes secondary.

[bombcar]

Owner-occupiers already are first class citizens in the USA (at least) as the total number of benefits angled toward home ownership are frankly insane.

The 30 year fixed-rate mortgage is an unnatural financial instrument.