American households are intended/designed to purchase property. If you don't, you're perpetually at the whims of the housing market. You may agree or disagree w

American households are intended/designed to purchase property. If you don't, you're perpetually at the whims of the housing market. You may agree or disagree with this as a way to structure society, but renting long-term is always going to be a losing proposition outside of some very specific situations. The biggest source of middle class wealth is real estate for a myriad of reasons.