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The typical first-time home buyer is now 38 years old, and first-time buyers' share of the market fell to 24% — a historic low.

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

What did buying a first place take for you — or what's it going to take?

— 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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