Re: Not always joking, it seems

<rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.

I was thinking of people who crash with friends semi-permanently,
not just for a few days.

To take an extreme example, if every house was occupied by its owner
and by ten unrelated adults, and there were no rented houses or
apartments, it would look as if everyone was a homeowner, when
actually fewer than ten percent were.
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