Hoisted from Comments

This is from "How It's Playing Out" in the the Washington Post's Outlook section: 

Home Sweet Home, by Rachel Dry: Outlook went house hunting this weekend and the real estate market was not pretty. Michael Grunwald's article about the increasingly elusive dream of home-ownership and the new realities of who qualifies for affordable housing caused some online readers to say its time to ditch that original dream. At Economistsview, one commenter said: “It's time for America to re-imagine the dream of home ownership, and start thinking about smaller, better-made houses close to urban centers…It makes me ill to go to the rural community I grew up in and see miles of land once used for horse farms crowded now with cheaply-made "McMansions."...