U.S. Housing Least Affordable in History

American households are spending more of their income on housing than at any other point in recorded history.

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December 7, 2022, 8:00 AM PST

According to an article in The Real Deal, housing in the United States is less affordable than ever. “In September 2022, a median-income household would have had to spend a little over 46 percent of its income to afford a median-priced home. That’s a 14-point spike from September 2021, when a household had to spend about a third of its income to afford a home in its community.” This remains the case in all but one U.S. metro areas with a population of more than 500,000.

California takes the top five spots on the list of most unaffordable metro areas, with the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area, where it would cost a median-income household 66 percent of their income to buy a home, coming in sixth.

The cities with the steepest declines in affordability, the article notes, are in the Southeast, where housing prices were historically low.

FULL STORY: Housing affordability is worst on record, data shows

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