Having a house and having a house once coincided. Families have lived in the same house for generations, but today the sentimental value of having a home has changed. As Quindlen says: “There was a time when where you lived was often where you worked and where you grew the food you ate and even where you were buried. When that time passed, where you lived was at least where your parents had lived and where you would live with your children when you became debilitated” (Quindlen 215). However, over time, even this has changed. Now we grew up to live in a house and then left like nothing happened. The sentimental value of a home has declined. Quindlen demonstrates that "all of a sudden the place you lived became the place you lived for three years, until you could move on to something else and something else" (Quindlen 215) . However, for those who don't have a home, they would give anything to feel that sentimental feeling that once accompanied having a home. But that’s precisely the problem; for most, house and home no longer coincide. We can own a house but not have one, or vice versa. After all, “Home is where the heart is.” There’s no place like it” (Quindlen 214). People can have housing without having a house. A house is simply having a family,