Owning a home in America keeps getting further out of reach. According to Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, the median-priced US home now sells for about five times the median household income, far above the price-to-income ratio of 3.2 that was typical throughout the 1990s. Against that backdrop, one Oregon man's decades-old decision to skip the housing market entirely feels newly relevant. His name is Bruce Campbell, and home, for him, is a retired passenger jet parked in the woods outside Portland.
From a plan for freight vans to a plan for a plane
