Apartment life is booming in America. Meanwhile, home ownership is at its lowest rate in a century. What happened to the American housing dream? Is home ownership going the way of the dinosaur? Not likely…but there is a shift afoot. Home ownership is still a sense of pride for millions of Americans, but it’s not the must-have it used to be. Living as a renter no longer carries with it a sense of failure or shame. People are proud of their 2 bedroom apartments! Why the shift?