As a home owner without any mortgage because I really am the home owner, not a lease to eventually own, from the bank I don't feel like I receive any "welfare" because I pay Property taxes that go up every time the speculators drive home prices up and I receive ten million annoying phone calls from Home Vestors and their similar slime that won't put me on their do not call lists when I've been on the Do Not Call database since it was created. Do I receive welfare by owning a fully paid off home? I certainly don't see it that way. Besides property taxes my home insurance goes up as speculators drive home prices up to the point I'm holding off replacing my roof (not leaking just isn't as pretty as others around me really) because if I file for the work with my insurance the claim is large enough to cause my premiums to go up even more than the speculators have driven it. So I think this whole claim that I get welfare by being a home owner is a crock of swill.