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>I think people are over-extending themselves. I mean, yes and no. It is true that people are overextending themselves, but there are not a lot of alternatives
by petsfed 2y ago
>I think people are over-extending themselves.
I mean, yes and no. It is true that people are overextending themselves, but there are not a lot of alternatives. To whit: the median home price to median household income ratio is the highest its been since the census started keeping track in 1947 [0]. Its worse than 2008, and like the article says, there are a lot of guardrails in place to prevent the wildly irresponsible borrowing that created that mess.
0. https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/ https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
- petsfed 2y agoI think a potentially illuminating visualization would be to calculate what home sale percentile corresponds to a responsible use of the median household income (and vice versa) over the last 70 years, but that sounds like a really finicky calculation, so maybe not today.