How Homeownership Has Changed in America And Why You Shouldn't Give Up on Buying | Visions | AlterNet
"In one short decade, home ownership has gone from being the Holy Grail of middle-class financial achievement -- the biggest and most lucrative investment most of us would ever make, and the one most reliably likely to pay off -- to a very risky financial ball-and-chain that more and more of us are going way out of our way to avoid."
