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As Mortgage-Interest Deduction Vanishes, Housing Market Offers a Shrug
New York Times, Aug. 4, 2019–Jim Tankersley, Ben Casselman
The mortgage-interest deduction, a beloved tax break bound tightly to the American dream of homeownership, once seemed politically invincible. Then it nearly vanished in middle-class neighborhoods across the country, and it appears that hardly anyone noticed.