[akira2501]

> the need for shelter into an investment vehicle.

It's likely the shelter will be on this earth longer than I will? We didn't make it that way, it is that way.

[bartvk]

That fact alone doesn't make it into an investment vehicle.

There's a set of circumstances that make it so. Low interest rates, being able to use leverage (borrow money, buy a house then rent it out), and higher-than-inflation price increase of houses.