{"id":559161,"date":"2023-03-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/housing-affordability-hits-historic-low\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:00:00","slug":"housing-affordability-hits-historic-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/housing-affordability-hits-historic-low\/","title":{"rendered":"#Housing affordability hits historic low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256fcb30215\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/housing-affordability-hits-historic-low\/#Housing_affordability_hits_historic_low\" >Housing affordability hits historic low<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/housing-affordability-hits-historic-low\/#The_growing_racial_homeownership_gap\" >The growing racial homeownership gap<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/housing-affordability-hits-historic-low\/#Why_the_Fed_is_making_homes_less_affordable\" >Why the Fed is making homes less affordable<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Housing_affordability_hits_historic_low\"><\/span>Housing affordability hits historic low<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/0eb7971038084d86bc1314df611a2bc1-e1677793041328.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fewer than a quarter of homes listed for sale nationwide qualified as affordable for the typical U.S. household, according to a new report shared exclusively with The Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report, released Friday by real estate brokerage Redfin, found that the number of affordable listings in 2022 fell by more than half\u00a0from the previous year \u2014 the largest annual drop on the company\u2019s record dating back to 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Redfin <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/investors.redfin.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/detail\/882\/redfin-reports-there-were-half-as-many-affordable-homes-for\">analyzed home listings<\/a> in the nation\u2019s 100 most populous metros, marking a listing as affordable if its estimated monthly mortgage payment did not exceed 30 percent of the local county\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n income.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHousing affordability is at the lowest level in history, which is widening the wealth gap\u2014especially between generations,\u201d said Redfin deputy chief economist Taylor Marr. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany millennials were able to buy homes before or during the pandemic homebuying boom, but many others were priced out of homeownership and forced to keep renting,\u201d Marr added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was due largely to a combination of persistently high prices and surging mortgage rates, which peaked late last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yelena Maleyev, an economist with KPMG, told The Hill the duo\u00a0of high prices and high mortgage rates have drastically eroded affordability even though prices have come down from the pandemic peak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat kind of double whammy, that double pain that folks are feeling, [is] keeping them essentially sidelined for longer \u2026 especially those who are maybe at the lower income level or the first-time buyer that can\u2019t sell an existing home and use that money to buy that move-up home,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Yet it\u2019s not only mortgage rates and high prices impacting buyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ken Ralph, a consultant in Boston, told The Hill\u00a0prices were a big deal in his home search in the last year, but so were poor listing de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe descriptions of the available properties are misleading and confusing. You have to actually go see the thing to tell if it is what they say it is,\u201d Ralph said in an interview.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Affordable homes accounted for slightly\u00a0less than 9 percent of listings in Boston last year, according to the Redfin report.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_growing_racial_homeownership_gap\"><\/span>The growing racial homeownership gap<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Redfin\u2019s analysis also found that for the typical white household, around 28 percent of homes were considered affordable. But for the typical Black household, availability plummeted to just nine percent. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHousing has become incredibly unaffordable for a lot of Americans, but Black families have been hit especially hard because they\u2019re often less wealthy to begin with,\u201d Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cOn average, Black Americans earn less money, have less generational wealth, and have lower credit scores (and sometimes no credit score at all) than white Americans. That makes it tougher to afford a down payment and qualify for a low mortgage rate. They also frequently face racial bias during the homebuying process.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One way to improve the growing disparity is new construction, Fairweather told The Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Black-White Income gap needs to shrink and, in order to do so, more affordable, multifamily homes need to be built for first-generation homeowners looking for a starter home,\u201d\u00a0Fairweather said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/research-and-statistics\/research-reports\/a-snapshot-of-race-and-home-buying-in-america\">separate report<\/a> released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) found that the homeownership gap between Black and white buyers increased in 2022 to its widest level in a decade.\u00a0The Black homeownership rate in 2021 was 44 percent, while the white homeownership rate was 72.7 percent, NAR\u2019s report found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the incredible affordability challenges of the last year have hit minority home buyers more than White buyers,\u201d\u00a0Jessica Lautz, NAR deputy chief economist and vice president of research, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack buyers are more likely to be first-time buyers, who are more sensitive to changes in mortgage interest rates, while White buyers are more likely to have housing equity to rely on as they make a housing trade.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_the_Fed_is_making_homes_less_affordable\"><\/span>Why the Fed is making homes less affordable<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Federal Reserve\u2019s ongoing battle to stifle inflation has pushed up mortgage rates following a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of jumbo interest rate hikes. After reaching record lows of under 3 percent earlier in 2021, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage jumped to more than 7 percent before dipping back down at the beginning of the new year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average rate last year was 5.34 percent, up from 2.96 percent in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The central bank is expected to raise its interest rates several more times this year, putting more pressure on the housing market and raising mortgage rates. And this could lead to price declines, Maleyev said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cSo obviously, that would allow for some of that affordability reprieve in the regions that would see the higher declines,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut again, these types of declines, when you think about how high\u00a0they\u2019ve come up, we\u2019re not thinking about prices coming back down to, let\u2019s say, February 2020 levels. 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