https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/homeownership/Recent content in Homeownership on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usMon, 22 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/eighty-four-to-eight/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/eighty-four-to-eight/<p>The house my parents bought in Muncie in 1968 cost $18,400. My father had been on the Delco-Remy line in Anderson for eleven years by then. My mother was working the front desk at Ball Memorial Hospital. They saved until they had a down payment, applied for a mortgage, and got one without much drama. Three bedrooms, one bathroom, a yard with a chain-link fence, on a street of houses where everyone was doing more or less the same thing for more or less the same reasons.</p>