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Category: Affordability

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Blue Markets Face Bigger Housing Challenges Than Red Markets

The housing crisis hurt Democratic- and Republican-leaning markets similarly, but today blue mark...
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Buying Cheaper Than Renting, But Some Mortgages Make It a Closer Call

Nationally, buying is 38% cheaper than renting with a traditional 20% down, 30-year mortgage. Buy...
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Cutting Housing Costs When Financial Hardship Strikes

In good economic times as well as in bad, financial hardship can always strike. And when it does,...
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Despite Home Price Slowdown, Wages Can’t Keep Up With Prices

The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how a...
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Where Buying a Home is Within Reach of the Middle Class

Where can the middle class afford to buy a home today? Affordability has worsened in the past yea...
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Why Conforming Loan Limits Should Be Part of Housing-Finance Reform — But Aren’t

The U.S. housing finance system is national, but housing markets are local. Local markets often f...
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How Special Are Million-Dollar Listings?

Close your eyes and imagine a million-dollar home. Depending on where you live, you might be pict...
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America’s Most Unequal Metros

Income inequality has been growing in America, driven by technology, globalization, and other fac...