30 Years in 30 Days • Year 10: A Tale of Two Eras — Home Buying in 1972 and 2023

Jeffrey Goodman
8 min readNov 12, 2023

Decoding the affordability crisis in the modern housing market — how has buying a house in the U.S. changed since the 1970s?

Data analysis, spreadsheet creation, and image creation done by author, 2023

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Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.