At last, someone from the world of politics is being honest about a pervasive and harmful trade-off. When home prices rise faster than earnings, owners like me gain wealth, while non-owners lose because their incomes fall further behind housing costs.
Honesty is saying that home prices have to fall. But this is progress.
The Generation Squeeze folks have recommendations.
I did. Did you? Again, it’s not like one day you have a million dollar home and the next day you have a $300,000 home. That is not how it works. There is all kinds of ups and downs that follow a crash. Compare what you are seeing now to the US housing market in 2006-2007. You are going to see a lot of similarities.
I think you could argue that the market is slowing or declining, I disagree now but I could be swayed.
Saying the market is crashing though is like saying you crashed your car when you hit a pothole. Sure, if you look at a big car crash in the past someone may have blown a tire in a pothole before causing a pileup, but millions of people hit potholes every day and most are nothing more than a momentary slowdown.
I’m not saying a housing crash couldn’t be coming, but it’s unreasonable to infer that one is happening based on the data you showed.