I tend to agree, but I also feel like houses as a financial growth (vs family housing stability) investment is a new thing over the last 25-30 years, exacerbate

I tend to agree, but I also feel like houses as a financial growth (vs family housing stability) investment is a new thing over the last 25-30 years, exacerbated no doubt by economic policies. Before that, the only financial rationale I recall for buying a house was as a forced savings vehicle and as freedom from rent variations.