America’s obsession with home 0wnership goes back to the New Deal and continues to do us a great deal of damage. So argues Ryan McMaken in this Mises Daily piece.  What sort of housing arrangements people make is not properly any business of government, but our glorious pols, sensing an opportunity to enhance their popularity, have pushed home ownership as the equivalent of The American Dream. We’re much the worse off for it, with the vast waste of resources during the late housing bubble a good reminder that federal meddling always has opportunity costs.