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Chris Arnold

With mortgage rates near 7%, the housing party is over. Now it's hangover time

Mike Johansen stands by the door of the camping trailer where the couple is living while they wait for construction on their new home to be finished. (Andrea Johansen)

These days Andrea and Mike Johansen are not living their best life. It's temporary but the couple is crammed into a small camping trailer at her parents farm in western Massachusetts, across from a barn with 100 very noisy chickens.

"It starts at like 4:30 in the morning," Andrea says. "You're trying to have zoom calls for work and when the sun starts going down, they start all over again... going bonkers."

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