The bizarre belief that adequate housing means home ownership and not rental housing was one of the push factors in the subprime crisis.
But there are dozens of other unresolved challenges expected - challenges to waiting periods for buying a gun, bans on gun ownership in public housing projects, bans on gun ownership for people who've had restraining orders issued against them in domestic violent situations.
Few have anything like the same level of state support, yet many have comparable levels of home ownership and housing affordability.
Among the initiatives being presented by housing associations, shared ownership enables home buyers to begin with a relatively small, or affordable, stake in their new homes.
The transfer of power to Washington started with slum clearance during the Depression when the federal government began relocating the poor to more concentrated enclaves of public housing where they were denied ownership of the economy they once had built to support themselves however modestly.
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It's time that all public housing residents have that opportunity of ownership.
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges asked Mr Lewis to look at the provision of co-operative housing as an affordable model of home ownership and Mr Lewis confirmed that various schemes were "on the starting blocks".
The weak housing market has led Americans away from home ownership and toward renting, pushing up rents.
For us, expanding opportunity means not the backward-looking plans of Labour's Deputy Leadership candidates - who only see a future for more state-owned and run housing - but helping young people onto the housing ladder through a massive extension of shared ownership and the right to buy.
Owing to the basic truth that we produce in order to consume, and that consumption of shelter is a given, the best path for the government to take in order to save housing would be to de-emphasize its ownership, or at the very least make it equal in the eyes of the law with regard to other investments.
Lately news-makers have been batting around the question of whether or not home ownership is good or bad for the housing market, the economy, and individuals.
There are also signs that the rent rises caused by the shift in ownership are pushing up the bill for housing benefit, the rent subsidy paid to poor people.
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Local standards limit housing, utilities, and transportation expenses, including vehicle ownership as well as operating costs.
The council's solution is to transfer ownership of all the houses to a single housing association.
The houses have long been signed over to the council and a housing association, and many have been sold into private ownership through the right-to-buy scheme.
In 2006, the local authority's tenants voted against transferring ownership of 14, 500 homes to a private housing association.
But when it comes to housing, history shows any governmental efforts meant to achieve greater ownership were superfluous at best.
Most of this debate misses the point: that the country was gripped by an obsession with home ownership that had a big hand in fueling the housing collapse.
As it applies to housing, the chance for the prudent to take over home ownership from the imprudent will be delayed if heavily subsidized lenders give in to the Obama administration's wishes.
The steady drumbeat of bad housing market news has spawned a debate about the merits of home ownership.
In March, 58% of Wrexham's 9, 722 tenants voted against moving ownership from the council to a newly-created independent housing association.
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Rural housing enabler Rhidian Jones, who helps develop affordable housing policies independently, said local people only would be considered for ownership of the new homes.
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Landgrabbing--building infrastructure, housing and factories without any compensation (there is no private land ownership, but the farmer has a lifelong lease)--is a major source of revolt as well, everywhere, due to China's very development.
For instance, a public-private collaboration initiated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago with Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago and the City of Chicago produced the Home Ownership Preservation Initiative (HOPI), which began in 2003.
Given the pulverized state of the housing market and its heartbreaking effects on millions of people, is home ownership still an aspirational value Americans strive to attain?
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If we want to increase home-ownership a tricky goal, as the bursting of the housing bubble taught us an open-ended mortgage interest deduction is not the best way to do so.
Fewer homes were also built using cash from the Scottish government's affordable housing supply programme, which helps provide properties for low-cost rent or ownership, with 6, 882 completed in 2011-12.
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Housing Minister Dave Jones said there had been great progress in social rented and partial ownership schemes.
Housing minister Mark Prisk said Right to Buy had "opened the door to home ownership for thousands of tenants across the country".
In loosely regulated metropolitan housing markets, like Houston, Texas, the relationship between the MID and home ownership is stronger because there is a lot of vacant land and zoning regulations are not very strict.
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