{"id":2053,"date":"2008-10-10T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2008-10-10T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T04:15:00","slug":"rent-vs-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Rent vs. Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question for people who read about and think about history and finance:<\/p>\n<p>In a sustained economic downturn, is it better to be renting an apartment, or to own a house?<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch of risks and benefits either way.  Rent drops as times get rough, mortgages generally do not.  Renters are somewhat vulnerable to their landlord going bankrupt, where owners have &#8220;local&#8221; control over their finances.  <\/p>\n<p>Any good references on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question for people who read about and think about history and finance:<\/p>\n<p>In a sustained economic downturn, is it better to be renting an apartment, or to own a house?<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch of risks and benefits either way. Rent drops as times get rough, mortgages generally do not. Renters are somewhat vulnerable to <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2053\">Rent vs. Own<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}