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that when people own property they become
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"Bought-in citizens", citizens who
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identify with the Commonwealth
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and who can be counted on
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to act in public-spirited ways.
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And there's a great run-up in home ownership
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between World War II and the 1980s,
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and it is fuelled by
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very profitable mass development of suburban housing;
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it is financed by
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FHA and related government entities;
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and it is rewarded