The American Dream is losing its keys.  The number of US homeowners fell in 2025 — the first time in nearly a decade the figure has dropped, according to a realty company RedFin .  About 86.19 million Americans belonged to the picket-fence crowd as of April 1, down 0.1% from the 86.28 million who owned homes at the same point in 2024. The United States last saw a drop in home ownership in the second quarter of 2016, when there were 74.36 million deed holders — down 0.1% from the 74.4 million at