own vs rent house

own vs rent house

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Faculty Scholarship

2012

Owning Versus Renting: Thoughts on Housing
Policy, Tax Incentives, and Middle Class Dreams
Neil H. Buchanan
George Washington University Law School, neilhbuchanan@gmail.com

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Owning Versus Renting: Thoughts on Housing
Policy, Tax Incentives, and Middle Class Dreams

Abstract: This document gathers together 22 essays that were
originally published as online commentary by Professor Neil H.
Buchanan, between 2008 and 2012. All but one of the essays first
appeared on the Dorf on Law blog (www.dorfonlaw.org). In these
essays, Professor Buchanan discusses the arguments for and
against government support of individual home ownership. Most
of the essays focus on how to move away from the model of
individual ownership. The latter essays, however, begin to
embrace the possibility that home ownership incentives should be
expanded, to mitigate the current upside-down quality of those
subsidies, and to preserve middle-class professional jobs. These
essays were also included in the continuing legal education
materials for the “Teaching Tax” session at the 2012 Joint Fall
CLE meeting of the ABA Sections of Taxation and RPTE in
Boston, on September 14, 2012.

Neil H. Buchanan, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Law
The George...

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