Leaving out the last sentence in your quoting does a disservice to what they were pointing out.

They weren’t saying anyone deserves to be poor. They weren’t saying that real estate being an investment is ideal or how it should be.

The housing market is historically, currently, and prospectively an investment, and one of the only high-return, low-risk investments available to the middle class. If you can play that game and don’t, then you are making a mistake, especially if you have kids.

So you can’t afford that sort of thing? Well if you can’t afford that sort of thing, I guess you’d never say you could afford that sort of thing.