From your Wikipedia article: “ The name "home-ownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occu

From your Wikipedia article: “ The name "home-ownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own their own home. This latter percentage will be significantly lower than the home-ownership rate. Many households that are owner-occupied contain adult relatives (often young adults, descendants of the owner) who do not own their own home. Single building multi-bedroom rental units can contain more than one adult, all of whom do not own a home.” According to the US Census in 2020, 139.68 million homes in the US with a 64% owner-occupied rate means 89.395 million homes are owner occupied. Let’s say 85% of those are dual-owned (by couples) which I could not get a solid statistic on but several policy websites seem to cite, and we will assume the other 15% are single owners. Then about 165 million people either own or partially own the house they live in, or roughly 50% of the population. That is the slimmest of majorities, far less than the 65% implies. [0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219