The number of US cities where first-time homebuyers are faced with at least a $1 million price tag on the average entry-level home has nearly tripled in the past five years, according to new research.

A Thursday report from Zillow indicates that a typical starter home is now worth $1 million or more in 237 cities, up from 84 cities in 2019, underscoring America’s ongoing home affordability crisis.

“Affordability has been strained across the board,” Orphe Divounguy, a senior economist at Zillow, said. “We see the largest number of million-dollar starter homes in expensive coastal markets. We see them in markets with very low homeownership rates and we see them in markets with more building regulations.”

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    3 months ago

    Rich people have money.

    Rich people buy things us poor can’t. Or more of those things.

    Rich people control the markets.

    Rich people squeeze the lifeblood out of us peasants.

    Only rich people can afford homes.

    Rich people raise rents the servants must pay because being homeless is illegal.

    EAT THE RICH