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House Lust : America's Obsession With Our Homes by Daniel Mcginn, Daniel McGinn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is House Lust : America's Obsession With Our Homes about?
A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting, House Lust offers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in historyand its eventual bust. Owning a home has long been considered the fulfillment of the American Dream. But in the last decade, as the real estate market boomed, Americans fascination with homes turned into a frenzy. Everywhere we turned, people were talking about, scheming over, envying, shopping for, refinancing, or just plain ogling housesin the process, weve transformed shelter from a basic necessity into an all-consuming passion. In House Lust, Newsweek s Daniel McGinn travels the country to explore the roots of this mania. Even as the real estate boom has turned to bust, Americans remain obsessed with housesmany of us are still trading up, adding on, or doubling down to buy vacation property. But for others, this zeal for housing has carried a painful price, one thats evident in the soaring foreclosure rates and mounting despair as millions of homeowners (and their lenders) realize theyve stretched too far to buy the home of their dreams. In a compelling narrative
Who reads House Lust : America's Obsession With Our Homes?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel Mcginn, Daniel McGinn
- Publisher
- Crown Currency
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385519298
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Home & Lifestyle, Psychology, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 3.32 / 5 (357 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14