The vast majority of Americans still believe that owning a home is the best investment someone can make, despite steep declines in housing values over the past five years.

A new study by the Pew Foundation found that 81 percent of Americans surveyed said that buying a home is the best long-term investment a person can make. That’s nearly identical to the 84 percent that gave the same answer to a similar survey 20 years ago.   The intensity of that belief has declined, however. Only 37 percent say “strongly agree” that a home is the best long-term investment, compared to 49 percent who held that view in 1991.   That Read full post…