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Housing Is Seriously Rolling Over
Let’s start with the fact that the average American can’t afford the average house. Not even close:
Houses have been unaffordable for a while, but for a while, “investors” — i.e., private equity companies with access to cheap credit — took up the slack, sometimes buying entire neighborhoods and converting the houses to rentals. Now they’ve begun to retreat:
