• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    Housing was affordable and wages hadn’t fully flatlined, so a single income family could still possibly pay that mortgage, even pay extra against the rate, and support a family. Definitely a lot more than one single rate number, lots of things are broken.

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      I would absolutely take the interest rates of the 1980s with the housing prices of the 1980s.