Absentee Home Ownership
The cluster debates whether people should be allowed to own houses they do not live in full-time, the role of landlords and renting, and policies restricting multiple property ownership to promote broader homeownership.
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Not everyone owns the place they live in...
People don't own the house just to sell it for more later on. Some live in them.
Right but not everyone can live in a house they own all the time.
what do you believe is a better alternative? in your specific case, must one live in a house full time to maintain ownership?
You aren't entitled to ownership of a single house, either.
That's nice of you, but you owning the place means that somebody else cannot.
Some people own houses that they don't even intend to live in. Then they rent out those houses to other people who actually want to live there. Improper?
You probably meant own a home.
Is it actually possible to own as opposed to renting?
Someone has to own the property, why not the person who lives in it?