Homeownership Quotes

• That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

  Wendell Pierce

  Dream, Heart, Ideas

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• Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

  Spencer Rascoff

  Strong, Home, Emotional

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• For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Appreciation, Flower, Home

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Impact, Community

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• Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Strong, Growth, Typical

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• I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

  Ellen Goodman

  Home, Imagination, Plot

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Commitment, Views

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Home, College, Class

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