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Housing affordability hits worst level in 37 years

Housing affordability hits worst level in 37 years

Housing affordability hasn’t been this bad since Ronald Reagan was president. It now takes 35.51% of the median household income to make a principal and interest payment on the median home with 20% down, according to figures mortgage technology and data provider Black Knight shared with Yahoo Money. That’s the highest payment-to-income ratio since October 1985 when it took 36.01% of household income to make that payment. Just in January, that ratio was 24.61%, below the long-term average… Source link

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