Buying a home has long been hard. These days, it’s even harder. Single-family homes, particularly in Greater Boston, are more expensive than they have ever been, and they are in a constant state of high demand.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies estimated earlier this year that families need to earn around $181,000 a year to afford the median-priced home in our region. That was before mortgage rates soared to their highest level in over a decade.
Once the linchpin of the American dream, today, more and more people across the income spectrum in Greater Boston find purchasing a home to be painfully out of reach. Families steadily in the middle class are stuck frittering away precious dollars on rent. Lower income residents can hardly even dream of buying.
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The Globe wants to hear from residents of the region about their relationship with homeownership. Does it feel like a pipe dream? Is it just out of reach? Were your parents able to buy on half the salary you currently earn?
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Andrew Brinker can be reached at andrew.brinker@globe.com. Follow him @andrewnbrinker.