Home Prices Are Now Higher Than The Peak Of The 2000s Housing Bubble. What Gives?

NPR, Aug. 17, 2021–Greg Rosalsky
Even before the pandemic pushed the U.S. housing market into overdrive, the price of the average American home was on a rocket ride, climbing more than 50% between 2012 and 2019. It was the third biggest housing boom in American history. Then came the pandemic.
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