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Home Affordability: Better Than Headlines Suggest

The doom feed says home affordability locked a generation out. The math on the payment you actually write says something the headlines won't. Here are the "facts" that the media tells you about home affordability. Let's start with a recent survey. Two out of three Americans now say it's a bad time to buy a house, the most negative reading Gallup has ever recorded.1 Another study showed that a record 25.2 million adults under 35 are living with their parents.2 Scroll any feed, and you'll hear that home affordability has priced an entire generation out for good. Those are the "facts" according…

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