Two incomes, but working couple still locked out of housing market

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It is a cause for concern that low house prices exclude many from buying a house. But the problem is concentrated around Copenhagen, new analysis shows. In the rest of the country, most people can buy their own home.

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Two incomes, but working couple still locked out of housing market

Explore how Newcastle's soaring house prices make it impossible for essential workers to buy homes amidst a rising affordability crisis.

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‘Disenfranchised’ millennials feel ‘locked out’ of the housing market and it taints every part of economic life, top economist says – The Journal

Few milestones in life mean as much to the American dream as owning a home. And millennials have encountered the kind of trouble totally befitting their generation, which largely graduated into the teeth of the disastrous post-2008 job market. Just as they entered peak homebuying and household formation age, housing affordability is at 40-year lows, and mortgage rates are near 40-year highs. The anxiety this generation feels about the prospect o…

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Essential workers priced out of Hunter and Central Coast housing markets

New data has revealed just how unaffordable housing has become in the Hunter and Central Coast for essential workers. Cities in both regions, seeing a staggering jump in prices… far above any wage increases.