re: So all I need to do to afford a $750,000 house

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I agree. There are plenty of homes in America that are 150k that are not shite holes.

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You keep doubling down on stupid.

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How surprising!

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We also keep coming back to median household income...which isnt really fair to compare 1970s and 80s for multiple reasons

-There are less households today. Less women are willing to wife up your average dude and work with him to save to buy a home. The average dude is already ugly to them...and if he doesnt already have a house, even uglier. Marriage rates reflect this

-Also, there are more folks working later into their lives and making more money than they did years ago. There are also more Boomers than there were the previous generation which even further skews the median household income. This worked in the opposite direction when looking at median incomes from the 70s and 80s. There were more Boomers than older people and since naturally, younger folks make less money, it skewed the median income down.

All that said, using even the heavily skewed median household income metric, it still shows that house prices are much less affordable now than at any time

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The one you posted was a shitehole. If you can provide an example id love to see it

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LINK


took literally one minute to find a decent one. Midtown Mobile. Area being gentrified. Completely renovated. Great yard, great porch, nice sized rooms. Downside not having a second bathroom. Still, starting out, not a bad home and definitely not a shithole

To each their own

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There are less households today. Less women are willing to wife up your average dude and work with him to save to buy a home.

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But that doesn't mean that homes are less affordable than they've ever been. What it means is that people do not behave in ways that are conducive to affording a house. Those are two separate claims.

I'll concede that claim all day long, because people's spending habits now verses then also fall into that category.

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there are more folks working later into their lives and making more money than they did years ago. There are also more Boomers than there were the previous generation which even further skews the median household income. This worked in the opposite direction when looking at median incomes from the 70s and 80s. There were more Boomers than older people and since naturally, younger folks make less money, it skewed the median income down.

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O.k., but (since you brought it up) the relative lack of married couple households now skews it right back down.

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All that said, using even the heavily skewed median household income metric, it still shows that house prices are much less affordable now than at any time

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Using the three metrics included in the housing affordability index that was linked to above (household income, mortgage rates, and inflation adjusted house prices) it shows no such thing.

Let me ask y'all something:

For a moment let's act like the data actually shows what you claim. Let's pretend that it's true that no generation has ever faced a housing problem like young people in 2025.

So what?

Now what?

What's the point of endlessly whining about it?

Surely you realize that other generations have faced far bigger difficulties with other things. Maybe not buying houses, but something else. Maybe it was unemployment, maybe it was widespread lack of access to quality affordable health care, maybe it was being inducted into the military to fight a foreign war.

Y'all shut the frick up and deal with it, like those who came before you.

The whining is deafening from y'all pussy snowflakes.

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What's the point of endlessly whining about it?

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to force a change and to vent their frustration with the current state of the housing market. Why pretend that its not hard for them?

My great grandpa grew up with 13 brothers and sisters in 1500 sq ft. You can get that here, 5 miles from the beach, for 80k if you're patient enough for you and your "stuff". Nobody is making you live in the metro.

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Not boomers or Xers...the softest generations of all time

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ok kiddo

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College kid making 70k, living near downtown mobile with that house? Sure beats the hell out of an apartment sharing with a roommate or two

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If said person was making 70k you wouldnt need a roomate and that place was a dump and looked liked it smelled

No chicks want to show up there. I saw a solid apartment complex in downtown Mobile 1bd for 1200

You can keep thinking these places you are linking arent shiteholes but they are

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Why pretend that its not hard for them?

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Probably because they pretend that they're the only ones to face this difficult circumstance of houses being expensive.