TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.

  • Ranvier
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    6 months ago

    There are some pockets of affordability out there.

    The map in this article is nice (though you have to scroll through some annoying stuff to get there):

    https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/06/homes/housing-market-prices-affordability-dg/

    I would guess those would be the areas of next major population influx as people continue to flee high cost of living in other areas. Climate change making much of the west and southeast more unattractive in the long run too. While the more affordable areas are still relatively cheap compared to the rest of the country, most of them have already been seeing large spikes in housing prices too. We need some major policy changes to encourage cheap and higher density housing, better use of land in general, can’t just keep building only single family homes in low density areas sprawling out forever.