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24%

First-time buyers have fallen to 24% of the U.S. housing market — the smallest share ever recorded.

National Association of Realtors ↗ · Surveyed Jul 2023–Jun 2024

Who is actually buying the houses in your neighborhood?

— Works in construction— Lifelong progressive— Caregiver

This should not be the case in a country with this billionaire class. Pay should have to be a minimum of what the highest paid employee gets

↳ start it@makeitbetter

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— Small-business owner— Retiree— 50's parent with college aged children

Do you think corporations are the problem in the housing market? I believe there are solutions if we break out of traditional realtor deals and form contracts and create rental agreements between individual homeowners and long term renters. What do you think?

↳ start it@dazedandconfused

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