This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal and on their website recently in response to an inflamatory cover article in Time magazine. Yes it pays to own a home - how else do you build equity (of course the market is going to turn--it always does), save on taxes and... just plain save money?
You can read it here...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703376504575492023471133674.html
