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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by MrPowers on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:02AM (#24492262)
Congress made mortgage interest payments tax deductible in 1913, which gave folks an incentive to think of houses as investments.

Increasing home ownership was an express goal of the Bush Administration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAtUq0OJ68&ab_channel=vastg...

They wanted to promote an "ownership society": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership_society

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