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America’s Housing Affordability Crisis Spreads to the Heartland

  • Entry-level buyers hit hardest by prices rising out of reach
  • Low mortgage rates, jobs fuel demand for short supply of homes
Contractors work on a home in Louisville, Kentucky.
Contractors work on a home in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Low mortgage rates and thriving employment should be the recipe for a strong housing market. Instead, they’re deepening America’s affordability crisis.

What began on the coasts, in areas like New York and San Francisco, is now radiating into the nation’s heartland, as well as to cities from Las Vegas to Charleston, South Carolina. Entry-level buyers are scrambling to purchase homes that are in short supply, sending values soaring.