new glidden duo paint plus primer. only at the home depot. and starting at only $24.97 a gallon. all right. the future of the american home and american dream which are sort of married together, i think. right. and one of the things that this exhibition makes you think about is the underlying financial structure and policy structure that gives rise to the american suburb and the single family home. i think we think of it as they grow like corn in corn fields. right? particularly during the housing building you drive out west where i was living in chicago you drive west and they are being built. like an organic structure. there is a structureunder neath. a public policy structure particularly the mortgage interest deduction that helps produce this. this is yeah.
ha have 10 billion people on the earth, and be fine, but not many americans because if we consume the way americans consume, we would be finished. there s a fact the americans have to stop living in the ways that we do. and we saw at the margins, making the behavioral adjustments are possible. all the humers cruising through the streets disappeared when the gas went to $4. so it can be done. the changes of the average size of the american home that has grown over the last 50 years, jeremy, i wonder, do you think the political culture of the country is so focused on more, it seems impossible and unattainable to have a political message that tells people there will have to be less consumption. it s not so much how many people are on the planet, but how much of the planet s energy and resources each person is
i ll be back at the top of the hour with more live news. now i need to hand it over to your bottom line. the housing market has changed. so have you. what you need to know if you own a home, want to buy one or rent. plus is it ever okay to walk away from that mortgage even if you can afford to pay? let s start with the american dream of owning a home. you re a buyer it s a dream market but only if you can get the loan. with the end of the nation s largest mortgage lenders denying 27% of loan applications last year, that s up from 23.5% in 2009. this is according to wall street journal analysis. if you re a seller it s a nightmare. home prices rose slightly for the first time in eight months. according to the most recent s&p kay schiller index. prices are down 32% from their peak in 2006. home ownership is at the lowest level now since 1998. chris meyer is here. is the worst behind us here? depends where you live. i think in some of the coastal markets in coastal calif
we shouldn t be voting for pawlenty. connie shorts on this hot friday. thank you very much. reporter: thank you. now to the state of the american family and three new studies which show the good, the bad and the ugly state of things inside the american home. michelle garland is a family clinical psychologist joining us from los angeles. it s friday afternoon. let s start with the good. a new study shows there are no ill effects on children s behavior if their moms work during their early years, the study of social behavior lls had an interesting finding, girls of mothers who don t work showed more social difficulties at age five than those with working mothers. is that counterintuitive? it seems counterintuitive. but it actually makes sense. what we re talking about is are these women happy. if you want to work and that s what you want to do, then you work. you re going to be happy. your house is going to be happy. your children will be happier.
will anyone in this field inspire the conservative voters or do we have the wait for someone like sarah palin or donald trum tp to have the charisma that jon stewart was f stewart. i think secondly, governor pawlenty has a point, we should be voting on records which means we shouldn t be voting for pawlenty. connie shorts on this hot friday. thank you very much. reporter: thank you. now to the state of the american family and three new studies which show the good, the bad and the ugly state of things inside the american home. michelle garland is a family clinical psychologist joining us from los angeles. it s friday afternoon. let s start with the good. a new study shows there are no ill effects on children s behavior if their moms work during their early years, the study of social behavior lls had an interesting finding, girls of mothers who don t work showed more social difficulties at age