Re: Not always joking, it seems

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> It also appears that they're not trying to count "families", which
>> is a somewhat ambiguous concept, but instead use the percentage of
>> housing units that are owner-occupied as a fraction of the total
>> number of housing units in the country.
> 
> Then it's junk data, since it implies that if you sleep on the couch
> at a friend's house, you're a homeowner.

No, because they're not counting you at all, they're counting housing
units. Doesn't matter if it's you alone, five students, or four entire
"families". If the owner is one of the people living there, then it's
owner occupied. If the owner is not living there, then it's not.
Spending a night over at a friend's house is not living there any more
than spending a night at a hotel counts as moving, so even if you happen
to be the owner of the friend's house you don't make it "owner-occupied"
by visiting for a night.

	Robert
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