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I study the housing tenure decision in the context of a spatial life cycle model with uninsurable individual income risk, plausibly calibrated to match key features of the US housing market. I find that the relatively low ownership rate of young households is mainly explained by their high geographic mobility. Downpayment constraints have minor quantitative implications on ownership rates, except...