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Sluggish Housing Recovery Took $300 Billion Toll on U.S. Economy, Data Show
Wall Street Journal, Mar. 26, 2017–Laura Kusisto (subscription)
The decline in homeownership rates to near 50-year lows is partly to blame for the U.S. economy’s sluggish recovery from the last recession, new data suggest.