Home ownership as wealth over the life cycle
Europe Household Motivation for Residential Assets
Current situation and future propects
Bernard Vorms, 2010
Study published on the website of the University of Birmingham
Most countries encourage households to become homeowners in a more or less active way. Some even use the percentage increase of homeowners as an explicit and quantitative target in public policy.
Yet there is no correlation between a country’s wealth and the proportion of home owners.
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