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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 295: Affordable housing
Description: The boys drink and review Glacial Drift, a spiced winter ale from Heavy Seas, then discuss housing, and why the prices are so high.Â
What factors have caused home prices to go so high? And how do regular families afford these McMansions? It seems the ratio of income to house prices has changed radically since the 1970s.Â
Part of it is the assumption of two incomes in each family.Â
Also, we have bigger houses with fewer people in them. Houses get bigger while families get smaller.Â
If you track the change in w...