Written by Hugo Olaiz
Isaiah 5:8 (NRSV) Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!
Since home ownership is deemed to stabilize capitalist economies, many countries encourage their citizens to take loans and buy homes. This, however, has a dark side as old as the Bible: greed, speculation, trickery.
Remember the housing bubble bust in 2007 and 2008? After an exciting season of real estate prices going through the proverbial roof, the market dropped like a rock, and hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children had their homes foreclosed upon by banks, and then were evicted. Tent cities began to appear all over the country for the first time since the Great Depression.
Whether you live in a fancy house or a humble abode, whether you own your home or rent, consider yourself lucky to have a roof over your head! Hundreds of thousands of people live in shelters. Tens of thousands more live in their cars or in tent cities. Still others live on the streets. How would we explain this disparity to Jesus?
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