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" The group [the National Association of Real Estate Boards, now the National Association of Realtors] first tired to make landlords' rents exempt from taxes. When this effort was unsuccessful, NAREB campaigned to make home mortgage interest deductible from income tax and succeeded in the 1920s in winning this subsidy for their growing industry. "

Dolores Hayden , Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000


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Dolores Hayden quote : The group [the National Association of Real Estate Boards, now the National Association of Realtors] first tired to make landlords' rents exempt from taxes. When this effort was unsuccessful, NAREB campaigned to make home mortgage interest deductible from income tax and succeeded in the 1920s in winning this subsidy for their growing industry.