Buckminster Fuller understood housing prices were propped up:
"Realistically exploring, we find that only two percent of the U.S. population own their own homes outright, which therefore places the essential custody of this 'home’ inventoried accessory and arterial system tonnage within the control of corporation trusts or government. Though holding ultimate title foreclosure powers, the government to date has laboriously supported rather than challenged the corporate and trust prerogative over this tonnage, in order to avoid the political disturbances threatened by realistic inspection of the deflated functional value to which this junk tonnage is collateral throughout the vast ‘‘securities’’ structure of the country."