Homeownership, Family, and Competing Responsibilities

Sort-of revisiting some previous thoughts here

Back in fall of 2021, I wrote an essay at this newsletter titled “Apartments, Ownership, and Responsibility.” Perhaps you’ve read it—it’s among my most-read pieces here. In it, I responded to another author, who had written a piece arguing—essentially—that homeownership was virtuous and that renting was lazy. I wrote:

Suffice it to say I disagree more or…