Recently, the National Association of Realtors had identified the following benefits of home ownership and for public policies that promote home ownership. Among those pluses are: 1) Higher educational performance and better behavior of children; 2) Lower community crime rates; 3) Lessened welfare dependency among households; 4) More household participation in civic affairs; and 5)Better household health. You can read more about this at: REALTOR.org/realtormag.