Engles, The Housing Question, 1872: “For our workers in the big cities freedom of movement is the first condition of their existence, and land ownership could only be a hindrance to them. Give them their own houses, chain them once again to the soil and you break their power of resistance to the wage cutting of the factory owners.” (128) Remember that it is in the interest of the power bloc to have as many workers owning homes as possible. Money is made not just in land speculation and architecture construction, but mortgages tie people to their work; however small their wage, they become indentured servants to their debt.

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)