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ca-1133	Weiss, Hadas	Homeownership in Israel: The Social Costs of Middle-Class Debt	2014		.htm	text/html	9154	520	59	Addressing their predicament, economist Yaakov Sheinin (2011) makes the following assessment: Housing prices have not spiked due to housing shortages, as conventional wisdom would have it, but due to the sheer escalation of housing prices, which recommends real-estate as a good investment.4 People buy homes anticipating their rising value. Seeking further insight into the economic irrationality of housing investments, I observed twenty-some mortgage transactions at two banks (Le’umi and Tfachot) and a private mortgage consultancy (Matan).	cache/ca-1133.htm	txt/ca-1133.txt