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@Velocio
Why own?
Because if rent comprises 2/3 of someone's income, then they have to work from January through to September to pay the rent, and in effect if the majority of your wage is going to a landlord then you're living in servitude... you're a slave to the landowner. And welcome to the middle ages.
You need to own to break that cycle, just as servants of the land needed to own to break out of servitude. The land and home is then a living expense, but it's a reasonable one that isn't defining the majority of your effort as lining someone else's pockets.
I see high rents as slavery for the 21st century.
I don't see a need to own, I see a need to escape modern day slavery.