The Washington Post, March 8th, 2019: It turns out Americans weren’t ready to become a nation of renters. Homeownership is back in.
A funny thing happened on the way to the United States becoming a nation of renters: people started buying homes again.
New data indicate that in 2016, in defiance of myriad prognostications, the decade-long decline in the homeownership rate abruptly reversed. Once-rapid growth in renter households stalled, and the long-stagnant number of owner-led households began rising.