[EVO X]

Why not simply end all mortgage subsidies, and all implicit guarantees behind Fannie/Freddie and the rest of the financial system?

I think NAR and homebuilders would be screaming bloody murder. They would be back to building cookie cutter houses and turning existing McMansions into multifamily housing..

[oblomov]

I see no reason why the government should preference one asset class over others.

[TomasUSMC]

Homebuilders. How is it that the size of the average family has gone down and the size of the average house has gone up?

I say follow the money. More money paid to heat, maintain and pay prop taxes. I remember when you had a living room. Now its a family room, a dining room that is used twice a year, a recreation room, rooms rooms rooms and nobody is using them.......well with this new odumbiconomy.....maybe its a good thing since kids and grandkids are gonna be coming home to live lol.