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<title><![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Robert Bridges]]></title><link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=23048</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Bridges]]></description><category domain="23048">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Home Is a Lousy Investment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[<p>At the risk of heaping more misery on the struggling residential property market, an analysis of home-price and ownership data for the last 30 years in California&#8212;the Golden State with notoriously golden property prices&#8212;indicates that the average single family house has never been a particularly stellar investment. </p><p>In a society increasingly concerned with providing for retirement security and housing affordability, this finding has large implications. It means that we have put excessive emphasis on owner-occupied housing for social objectives, mistakenly relied on homebuilding for economic stimulus, and fostered misconceptions about homeownership and financial...]]></description>
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