I hate these kinds of questions, as the person interviewing has no right to know any of the real answers.
- they don't really care
- they don't need to know
- all they could do with that information is harm you or use it as a carrot.
That said, if I was to hire someone, I would want to know lots of things, because they will literally become part of the family. So, if their aspiration is to have a house, well, it is a lot better to have the company buy the house and rent it as part of payment. (of course you have to have two corporations that aren't linked together in any way to "legally" do this.) And some of the best companies even go so far as to have chickens and a vegetable garden, to make sure their employees are eating the best foods.
If you buy a house, then all you can deduct is part of the interest payment.
If a corporation buys a house, the entire thing is deductible. Maintenance, property taxes, everything. And the corporation can have a typical arrangement that it provides housing for its workers. You pay the worker less (the rent of the house) and so they pay less taxes. And the corporation writes off the entire cost of the dwelling paying less taxes.
As an example, Hugh Hefner rents his fully stocked mansion for something like $100 a month from the PlayBoy corporation.