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Title: Here's Why Housing Is Unaffordable for the Bottom 90%
Source: Of Two Minds
URL Source: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept23/gentrification9-23.html
Published: Sep 18, 2023
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
Post Date: 2023-09-18 02:20:48 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
Views: 1375
Comments: 4

This is the direct consequence of the Federal Reserve's decades of unprecedented stimulus: extremes of wealth and income inequality that gave the wealthiest households the means to bid up housing to the point it's no longer affordable to the bottom 90%.

The superficial conclusion that the reason why housing is unaffordable is a scarcity of housing misses a key dynamic in supply and demand: who has too much money and where do they park it??

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There's also the factor of massive population growth. When I was born, the US population was a little more than half of what it is right now.

In the intervening decades, the population has doubled, which crudely would mean double the amount of housing needed. But actually that number is bigger.

When I was born, there were about 73 million children. That's a little less than 1 in every 2 people was a kid. Beyond that, 72% of the adult population was married.

Today, the population has doubled, but there are still only 73 million children in the US, and the marriage rate population has tumbled to 45%.

So, we need at least three times as much housing as we used to, and most of the housing stock has turned over since then, as have the regulatory restrictions on building houses.

All of this drives up the price of houses by at least 300%, even if our money was literally gold and silver and there was no inflation at all.

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#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)

If we deported the illegal invaders housing and beef would both be cheaper. Bacon too.

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