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The Distant Dream of the Roof Itself: Argentina Was Very Poorly Placed in a World Ranking that Measures the Ability to Buy a Home

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The country ranks 169th out of 181 countries surveyed by the UN to measure the ratio of price of property and income of the population. What are the best and worst-placed economies in the world

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The country ranks 169th out of 181 countries surveyed by the UN to measure the ratio of price of property and income of the population. What are the best and worst-placed economies in the world

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Argentina ranks 169 out of 181 countries in a housing accessibility ranking. According to the indicator cited by UN-Habitat, a family needs 22.7 years of full income to buy a property.

A new international survey on access to housing highlights the structural problems of the Argentine economy: the distance between what a home earns and what it costs to buy a house. Specifically, Argentina ranks 169th out of 181 countries in the housing affordability ranking elaborated from UN Habitat data, corresponding to the World Cities Report 2026. The position places the country among the fifteen worst in the world. The indicator used by t…

Argentina ranks 169 out of 181 countries. According to UN-Habitat, a family needs 22.7 years of income to buy a property. Read more

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The dream of having a home of its own is getting farther and farther for many Argentines. An international ranking developed with data from UN-Habitat ranked Argentina 169th out of 181 countries by measuring how accessible it is to buy housing in relation to the income of the population. The indicator shows a significant difference between the price of the properties and what earns an average household. In our country, a family would need to spe…

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Infobae broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sunday, August 16, 2026.
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