"In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this … role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has … twentieth century. At the Boundaries of Homeownership traces how the government's role in this became submerged from public view …

the first home purchase, and the amount of housing and non-housing consumption in each period. An insight from the life …