> No. Just like the student loan crisis, when you make borrowing money really easy it drives prices up. Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. Student

> No. Just like the student loan crisis, when you make borrowing money really easy it drives prices up. Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. Student tuition well that's even worse because the risk to the bank is zero (because the government is backing those loans). This is unrelated to housing, but you have the order backwards. Prices went up, and students took out loans to pay them. The root cause of the increases in higher ed tuition is dis-investment in higher education by state legislatures, not increases in expenditures by colleges. Given that most colleges are state-run or non-profits, they can't just increase prices and dump the proceeds into profits; they have to spend the money they bring in, and I have yet to see any evidence that universities are spending 100% more (or any large number that scales with the recent increases in tuition) on a real per-full-time-student-equivalent basis. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-main-reason-tuition-is-skyrocketing/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...