As more women entered the labor force, the additional household income was eventually capitalized into higher home prices.

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Advancements in production knowledge and manufacturing skills should make housing more affordable over time

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate in the US is 7.5%

In the United States, 40% of homes are fully paid off with no mortgage

The average mortgage rate for U.S. homeowners is below 4% due to fixed-rate loans

The spread between the marginal mortgage rate and the effective mortgage rate is approximately 250 basis points, a near all-time high

A large spread between new and existing mortgage rates has created a "lock-in effect," reducing housing market transactions

Many older suburban homes owned by the boomer generation are not in demand by younger generations of buyers

Demographer Lyman Stone's research shows a large and growing divergence between the number of children people want and the number they have.

Essential goods and services such as health insurance, childcare, education, and housing have become unambiguously more expensive.

The "two-income trap" is an economic situation where most families require two incomes out of necessity, not choice.

The median age for a first-time homebuyer in the millennial cohort has surpassed 40 years old.

Large families are most common in small, thick communities where virtue games reward adherence to a specific moral code with status.

Sixty years ago, 86% of families with children in U.S. public schools were intact, with married parents.

The percentage of children from intact, married-parent families in public schools has decreased significantly in recent decades.

In a recent year, the median age of a home buyer in the U.S. was 56.

The productive, non-market labor of a stay-at-home mother is not captured in GDP calculations.

The number of seven-year-old children trusted by their parents to walk to school alone has been declining for 50 years.

Studies cited by Robert Putnam show that when a woman works due to financial necessity, her participation in local volunteering falls by more than half.

According to studies cited by Robert Putnam, a family's church attendance declines when a woman must work out of financial necessity.

Florida, a judicial foreclosure state, recently updated its laws to accelerate the process