Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100728:13:05:00
This point. >> all right. if you are looking to buy a home or sell your house, you know the painful truth that's no longer the safe investment to get used to. and that leaves us with this morning's headlines. ownership rates plunged the lowest level in more than a decade. cnn's carter evans live in new york to break down the numbers from the u.s. census bureau. carter? >> reporter: so get this. here is the number of americans who own their homes. it is 66.9% right now. that is the lowest number since 1999. the paeg was 69.2% in 2004. doesn't sound like a big difference percentagewise but tha...