You can only "afford" so much house until your wages increase or your equity affords a refinance/sale... unless you can generate side income some way. I am not

You can only "afford" so much house until your wages increase or your equity affords a refinance/sale... unless you can generate side income some way. I am not actually positive on wages increasing. I feel like there is enough information asymmetry in the market that wages will stay depressed.