Pain points

Median home price-to-income ratio climbs to 6x, stalling across generations

The median home price to median household income ratio has risen from 4.3x (2003) to 5.1x (2017) to approximately 6.0x today. Homeownership rates have fallen 8–10 percentage points across all age cohorts between 2000 and 2022.

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