Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Home-ownership is a key cultural icon in Australia. Australians have traditionally aspired to the modest Great Australian Dream of \"owning a detached house on a fenced block of land.\" Home-ownership has been seen as creating a responsible citizenry; according to a former Premier of Victoria, \"The home owner feels that he has a stake in the country, and that he has something worth working for, living for, fighting for.\"The Australian government has encouraged broad-scale home-ownership through tax incentives(although mortgage interest is not tax deductible as, for example, in the United States); as a result, 67% of households own their own homes — one of the largest proportions of any nation.In the past, home-ownership has been a sort of equalizing factor; in postwar Australia, immigrant Australians could often buy homes as quickly as native-born Australians. Additionally, Australian suburbs have been more socio-economically mixed than those in America and to a lesser extent Britain. In Melbourne, for instance, one early observer noted that \"a poor house stands side by side with a good house.\""@en }
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- Home-ownership_in_Australia abstract "Home-ownership is a key cultural icon in Australia. Australians have traditionally aspired to the modest Great Australian Dream of \"owning a detached house on a fenced block of land.\" Home-ownership has been seen as creating a responsible citizenry; according to a former Premier of Victoria, \"The home owner feels that he has a stake in the country, and that he has something worth working for, living for, fighting for.\"The Australian government has encouraged broad-scale home-ownership through tax incentives(although mortgage interest is not tax deductible as, for example, in the United States); as a result, 67% of households own their own homes — one of the largest proportions of any nation.In the past, home-ownership has been a sort of equalizing factor; in postwar Australia, immigrant Australians could often buy homes as quickly as native-born Australians. Additionally, Australian suburbs have been more socio-economically mixed than those in America and to a lesser extent Britain. In Melbourne, for instance, one early observer noted that \"a poor house stands side by side with a good house.\"".