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In most places across the world homeownership is a dream. Housing prices are many times the household income.

Despite calling it a dream, in America, historically home ownership for the middle class was a given.

America has just caught up to the rest of the world.

> In most places across the world homeownership is a dream.

AFAIK this is more a phenomenon of Western urban areas than the world in general. Even in very poor countries home ownership is normal (and for men it can be a de facto requirement for getting married).

Sure if you count inheriting a house....which is what is happening here in the west.

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