President George W. Bush pledged to make the U.S. an “ownership society” and tried to promote homeownership via tax credits, assistance with down payments and a variety of other programs. In 2004, this probably looked like a good bet – the U.S. homeownership rate had risen to about 69 percent, from 64 percent in the
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