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Poverty

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8. i agree. i'm not saying the the number of homeowners is a useful indicator of anything.

Sun Jun 28, 2015, 09:15 PM

Jun 2015

it's just the headline i have a problem with. stupid math error.

don't say number of homeowners when you mean home ownership rate.

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Number of US homeowners reaches 20-year low [View all] unhappycamper Jun 2015 OP

shame on the guardian for that math-impaired headline. unblock Jun 2015 #1

Nope jtuck004 Jun 2015 #2

given the population increase in the last 20 years, unblock Jun 2015 #3

wtf did i do to you? unblock Jun 2015 #5

here we go, link from the census: unblock Jun 2015 #6

HO Rate much worse than that - 1980 Q1: 65.5%; 2015 Q1: 63.8 Yo_Mama Jun 2015 #7