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Fortune
Jason Ma

We may be looking at the housing affordability crisis all wrong. Higher earners are driving home prices, not lack of supply, researchers say

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Economists, lawmakers, and Wall Street have long preached the need to increase housing supply to improve affordability, but it may not be that straightforward.

According to a recent note written by UC Irvine PhD student Schuyler Louie along with San Francisco Fed researchers John Mondragon, Rami Najjar, and Johannes Wieland, average income growth “relates strongly” to house price growth.

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