@addison.jarman: Buying a home has gotten EXPENSIVE. 🏡💸 To put these numbers together, I looked at historical U.S. home values and estimated the hourly income needed to afford them—assuming 20% down, a 30-year mortgage at roughly the prevailing interest rate, and housing costs around 28% of gross income. The craziest part? It’s not JUST that houses cost more. Did any of these numbers surprise you? 👀 📊 Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical housing data + HUD/Census home sales data via the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED). *These are estimates for comparison—not the actual average hourly wage earned during each decade.

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