cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4156961

Home Prices vs. Inflation: Why Americans Can't Afford a House in 2024

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  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    7 months ago

    The house my parents bought would now cost at least 12 times my annual income. Yet I live in a place where a decent-enough house costs 3 times my annual income.

    I'm wondering when the mass exodus towards cheaper small cities is going to happen.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      It's already happening, the housing costs where I'm at have quadrupled in 4 years thanks to transplants from mostly CA, FL, and NY. There are barely any jobs here though, so they pay about half what they would in a big city while that half is about 20x the median wage here.

      This leads to a vicious circle of them buying up even more property and converting it into short term rentals that are the equivalent of paying a mortgage that's 30x your salary.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      My parents bought their first house in 1991-ish for around 50k, sold it for around 130k in 2002-2003

      The same house now, largely identical save some minor remodelling and updating, is appraised at 282k

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Mine would be over 17x screm-cool

      Waiting on a tornado or earthquake to destroy my city so property values go down.