edit: Jerusalem the author is a black woman. No wonder she's racist.

But if the US becomes a nation of renters then the most affected will be the low income group. You know, the one in which poc are over-represented. You'd have to be really stupid to believe this renting mentality benefits anyone other than the large corporations who buy thousands of houses right now.

It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person.

It would be hilarious if people weren't falling for it.

They may even find themselves unable to afford their rising property taxes after they’ve spent a lifetime paying down a mortgage.

This is the only good point in the whole article. I think it's stupid how in the us property taxes can go higher and higher until people who own the property can't afford it anymore. It's basically renting from the state. If the us really turned into a nation of renters then this would never become a talking point again, since for a landlord higher taxes only mean increasing the rent to cover them.

Older and wealthier people often have a preference for stability; they’re closer to retirement and more likely to be facing medical needs, as they are later in life. That means this group is predisposed to fear change even more than the average person. And they are overrepresented in our political system.

The need for shelter is one of our primary needs as humans and yet the moron who wrote this article somehow twists it into being a bad thing, without saying so outright. He never goes into why is stability bad and change good. And who is the "average person" if older people aren't? Very subtle language manipulation - older white people aren't "the average person" and yet at the same time they are "over represented".

Retirement means lowered income and medical needs mean higher expenses, they're "fearing change". In this context fearing change means that they don't want to end up homeless or unable to afford their basic necessities. Yet this is somehow racist and not something the "average person" would fear.

Because while there is some rationality to the fears that drive homeowners to oppose growth and progress in their communities, there is also a massive cost.

The author basically admits he's a moron here.

All of that "massive cost" can be reduced by promoting work from home.