Caroline Baum: How home buying turned into a game of chance (Asbury Park Press)
Story date: 2007-09-09 05:18:31
Added on: 2007-09-09 22:00:05
Homeownership has long been considered a desirable goal. Put a person in a home of his own, the thinking goes, and he starts to care about the quality of local education, maintaining a drug- and crime-free neighborhood, and the appearance of his property and the block on which he lives. (See Summers, Lawrence: "In the history of the world, no one ever washed a rented car.")
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