| Surely one of us is confused, but I am not lying. Here it is on the Census website. No where does the Homeownership rate depend on people. It depends on housing units. > Housing Unit. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. > Homeownership Rates. The proportion of households that are owners is termed the
homeownership rate. It is computed by dividing the number of households that are owners by the total number of occupied households. > https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/definitions.pdf When we get to the bottom of this we should edit the Wikipedia article if I am wrong. > The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own their own home. This latter percentage will be significantly lower than the homeownership rate. Many households that are owner-occupied contain adult relatives (often young adults, descendants of the owner) who do not own their own home. Single building multi-bedroom rental units can contain more than one adult, all of whom do not own a home. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_St... |