{"id":268301,"date":"2010-02-02T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/homeownership-finally-back-to-pre-bubble-levels-but-weve-got-a-long-way-to-fall-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:50:45","slug":"homeownership-finally-back-to-pre-bubble-levels-but-weve-got-a-long-way-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268301","title":{"rendered":"Homeownership Finally Back To Pre-Bubble Levels, But We&#8217;ve Got A Long Way To Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel, as we do, that homes are over-owned (if you will) and that our economy would be healthier if there was a greater emphasis on renting, then this chart, via <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/homeownership-rate-falls-back-to-pre-boom-level\/\">Economix<\/a>, will hearten you. Homeownership levels are now down to levels before what&#8217;s generally considered to be the start of the bubble.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b6864d50000000000a6141e\/homeownership.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"homeownership\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it looks we&#8217;re nowhere near old levels, so for housing bulls, the fact that we&#8217;re &#8220;pre-bubble&#8221; doesn&#8217;t offer much comfort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/homeownership-finally-back-to-pre-bubble-levels-but-weve-got-a-long-way-to-fall-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rosenberg-save-the-banks-and-then-spank-them-2010-1\">Rosenberg: Where Is Obama On Fannie And Freddie?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-ben-bernanke-is-dead-wrong-about-the-housing-bubble-and-how-to-avoid-a-future-crisis-2010-1\">Ben Bernanke&#8217;s Huge Mistake About The Crisis Will Screw Us All<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/home-sweet-rental-the-american-dream-is-a-bunch-of-baloney-2009-12\">Home Sweet Rental: The American Dream Is A Bunch Of Baloney<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/XDoG62O2hR8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel, as we do, that homes are over-owned (if you will) and that our economy would be healthier if there was a greater emphasis on renting, then this chart, via Economix, will hearten you. Homeownership levels are now down to levels before what&#8217;s generally considered to be the start of the bubble. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}