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Housing Crisis Escalates: Rents Outpace Wages in 197 U.S. Counties, Debt Burdens Rise, and Bankruptcy Filings Surge
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 01/30/2024 2:51:38 AM PST by davikkm

The United States is grappling with a mounting housing crisis as median three-bedroom rents surge beyond the reach of average local wages in 197 out of 338 counties, according to ATTOM. This alarming trend aligns with the broader economic challenges facing individuals and families as housing costs outpace income growth.

Both rents and real estate prices have experienced significant escalations, far outstripping the pace of wage and salary increases. The consequences are particularly felt by younger generations, who have been hopeful for a real estate market correction to ease the burden of soaring housing costs.

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; clickbait; crisis; housing
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To: cgbg

It depends on the city. There are several commercial office buildings here in Nashua that are in nice areas that are not fully rented. They would make nice residential properties IF they could change them.

They have done a lot of that with older textile mill buildings around here. Brick buildings with big windows and 12’ ceilings. Exposed wood beams and plenty of parking.

There is an entire section of downtown Manchester, NH that is comprised of the old Amoskeag textile mill buildings. Almost all of them have been converted to mixed use properties. There are bars, restaurants, a college, multiple high tech companies, apartments and condos. The floors and wooden beams in these buildings were industrial. They originally had literally tons of machinery in them at one point. They were all woolen mills.


21 posted on 01/30/2024 8:30:27 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

New Hampshire is so white the Democrats banned the first primary there.

Lol.


22 posted on 01/30/2024 8:32:39 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg
90% white
5% Hispanic
3% Asian
1% Black

It is a feature, not a problem.

Vermont and Maine are even heavier White. Except their stupid governments brought in a bunch of Somalians a while back. Now, Lewiston, ME and Burlington, VT have a higher murder rate per capita than Chicago.

23 posted on 01/30/2024 8:52:11 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: dfwgator

Why you ingrates just don’t know how good you have it! - Democrats.


24 posted on 01/30/2024 9:20:20 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: cgbg

Here is an example of a 20 story office building in downtown Manchester, NH they just remodeled to 1-3 bedroom apartments.

https://www.1000elm.com/

This building had been a 20 story office tower since 1972.
Brady-Sullivan, who owns the building since 2006 is a real estate development company. They own multiple apartment complexes in NH & MA. Some are the mill type buildings I previously mentioned.

Here is an article about the conversion:

https://www.unionleader.com/news/homes/1000-elm-gets-ok-for-new-apartments-in-manchester/article_837c9047-e565-5e62-962f-cd256b8445f4.html


25 posted on 01/30/2024 11:58:19 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Manchester is a great city.

Unfortunately it is not representative of most medium and large cities in the country.

If you put that same building in Lawrence, MA or Camden, NJ or Baltimore, MD or Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL etc etc etc it would be a slum in ten years.


26 posted on 01/30/2024 12:03:24 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Brady Sullivan did a mill conversion down in Clinton, MA. I looked at an apartment with my son about three years ago. The apartments were really cool inside. Many of them had 20’ high ceilings with a loft and a spiral staircase to get up to that loft overlooking the living room/kitchen area. Then it had 1-2 bedrooms off that main floor. Still with 20’ ceilings.

The problem was right down the street was the hood. We spoke to a couple tenants who said there had been break ins of cars in their parking lot. They advised against living there. My son found an in law apartment above someones garage in Groton, MA(one of nicest towns in the Nashoba Valley are of MA).


27 posted on 01/30/2024 12:23:26 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: davikkm

I see entire housing developments and huge apartment complexes popping up around me almost daily. The construction is non-stop.


28 posted on 01/30/2024 1:09:23 PM PST by gitmo
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