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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Commodification of housing is driving house prices. It's not like higher earners want to pay as much as they can possibly afford for homes.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Honestly kind of incredible to show a graph like this

solid line "house prices index" goes up until somewhere between 2005 and 2010 then crashes until somewhere between 2010 and 2015 then continues to go up

and not mention the 2008 financial crisis once. That must have taken a lot of restraint.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Couldn't be more disingenuous

Show percentiles cowards

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

By showing average and median, you can sorta infer. In 2000, median matched housing price, by 2025 housing price is like 50% higher than median, whereas it's in line with average. This means that the poor people are extremely less able of affording a house.

[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think your "mean"s should be " median"s.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks a lot for the correction!

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

It would not surprise me if even the 90th percentile lags