While households have a variety of means to generate wealth over the long term, from wages to the stock market, perhaps no wealth-building mechanism is as broadly utilized by Americans as the housing market.

The fact is that housing wealth is far more evenly distributed across the population than are other forms of financial wealth such as equities or direct business investment, and for all but the wealthiest households, the main source of wealth is their home.

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