Owning property is the exercise of a fundamental American right. It has nothing to do with cost. Try telling a rural Alabama homeowner how "luxurious" a life he

Owning property is the exercise of a fundamental American right. It has nothing to do with cost. Try telling a rural Alabama homeowner how "luxurious" a life he leads over a market-rate renter in Union Square NYC, where the rent would easily be 3X the total mortgage + tax + insurance of the former.