Low-income Homeownership: American Dream or Delusion?

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The Relationship Between Homeownership and Life Satisfaction in Germany (2014, background): “6For an overview of the trends in low-income homeownership and the effects of low-income homeownership in the USA see Shlay (2006).”
The false promise of homeownership: Homeowner societies in an era of declining access and rising inequality (2020, background): “Just as fundamental as a vision of wide-spread access in homeowner societies has been the assertion that the means to such a goal is through market mechanisms (Aalbers and Christophers, 2014; Flint, 2003; Shlay, 2006).”
Homeownership and Subjective Wellbeing in Urban China: Does Owning a House Make You Happier? (2011, background): “On the one hand, homeownership can bring positive benefits to individual subjective wellbeing (Diaz-Serrano 2009; Dietz et al. 2003; Guven and Sørensen 2011; Rohe and Stegman 1994; Rossi and Weber 1996; Shlay 2006; Wei and Shang-Jin 2011).”
Sub-prime mortgage lending: a cultural economy (2008, background): “…governmental programmes led by Freddie Mac (2005) and Fannie Mae (2005) to extend the right to homeownership to minorities and those on low incomes (Shlay, 2006), and the Bush administration’s wider commitments to create a so-called ‘ownership society’ (Bush, 2005), interest-only ARMs served, in…”