Why wouldn't you? The only reason I don't want to own a home is that it's very expensive. I own a lot of other things, because they are not too expensive. And there's an argument that if everyone had to own their home, it would bring prices down, until they'd still be expensive, but no so expensive they couldn't be afforded.

Hell, I don't want to own property right now as I'm in a transitional form in my life. I pay too much for what I get out of my current apartment and I'm looking to downsize/chuck amenities away. Trust me, I'm happy to not have to maintain my plumbing or HVAC and while the ikea-quality hardware is ugly and cheap feeling, it's not my problem. It hurts, but I know that I'm not up to the task of maintaining a house and it would cost me more than rent to hire someone else to do it for me + property taxes + mortgage + actual material costs of maintenance.

But if you want to solve homelessness, like actually try to remove it as a necessary reality of modern life (as many other capitalist AND socialist countries have successfully achieved), we fundamentally can't get there through mortgages and rents. I'm happy that people are more literate about housing policy than ever, but I think we can aim for more than marginally more affordable housing—we can completely defeat homelessness if we have the will to do so and don't have a dogmatic fear of subsidized housing destroying the value of the asset you'll leverage to retire on (if you're lucky).

Sadly, I suspect we'll see a lot more homelessness before people who legitimately have any of their interests at heart enter power.

We cannot solve homelessness with market mechanisms, I believe

We are in agreement, I think.

> Hell, I don't want to own property right now

You need some place to live where the organisation of the capital is somebody else's problem.

You need to rent.

That does not mean you need to be exploited to the limits of your vulnerabilities. Which is the market model