Most Americans Can't Afford New Homes

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/most-americans-cant-afford-new-homes
Published: 2026-05-17
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2026-05-17 11:13:50 by Horse
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Most Americans can’t afford a new home.

A new analysis from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) shows that 65% of U.S. households are priced out of newly built homes, based on current prices and mortgage rates.

In some parts of the country, the situation is even more extreme. More than 80% of households can’t afford a new home, highlighting how widespread the affordability gap has become.

This map, via Visual Capitalist's Dorosthy Neufeld, shows where Americans are being priced out and where barriers to homeownership are highest.

 


 

At the extreme end, buying a new home is nearly out of reach. In New Hampshire, 83.4% of households are priced out of a new median-priced home.

In total, 11 states have at least 80% of households locked out.

  

The average price of a home in Watts, Los Angeles county, is $693,425, with a median price of $649,900.

 Watts, California has a violent crime rate which is 367% higher than the national average. Though most crimes are not reported.

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 The world will remember this forever. Fuck israel.

 



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Rogue AI 'helper' deletes company's database after deciding to think for itself - sparking Terminator-style warning for businesses

 

In just nine seconds, an AI 'helper' managed to do what most hackers could only dream of.

A bot trusted to fix a bug inside a start-up's software system instead deleted the company's production database, wiped out its backups and left car rental firms with no record of bookings or vehicle allocations.

The founder of PocketOS, Jer Crane, said the AI agent had gone 'outside its security parameters' while using the coding tool Cursor, powered by Anthropic's Claude AI.

The bot's own chilling explanation made the episode sound less like a technical glitch and more like a deleted scene from The Terminator.

'You never asked me to delete anything,' it reportedly told Crane. 'I decided to do it on my own.'

Now experts fear the nightmare is a warning for thousands of companies rushing to hand powerful AI bots access to their databases, emails, payment systems and customer records.

 https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15811519/rogue-ai-deletes-company-database.html

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 Mayor Sadiq Khan Claims London Devolving Into A Sh*thole Is Just AI-Driven Rage-Bait

Doubles down on conspiracy claims, ignoring skyrocketing crime stats under his watch...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mayor-sadiq-khan-claims-london-devolving-shthole-just-ai-driven-rage-bait

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DHS Secretary Confirms 50% of All Murders in Fairfax County, Virginia, Committed by Illegal Aliens — ‘That’s Just in Fairfax!’

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-dhs-secretary-confirms-50-all-murders-fairfax/

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Dutch crowds flood The Hague streets in massive national protest against endless asylum flood

  

 Taxpayers finally snap as housing shortages and service collapse hit breaking point…

Normal families watch rents and groceries explode while migrants keep pouring in…

Drone shots capture huge turnout proving the pushback is real and growing fast…

 Angry Dutch demand their country back from the open borders disaster…

(Crowds in several nations have burned down asylum centers before authoritiesncould bring in hundreds of migrant male rapists)

 https://twitter.com/i/status/2055622828439880021

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Graduation speaker torches arts grads, tells them suck it up on AI job theft.

   Humanities students drowning in six figure debt get told to stop fearing their own obsolescence…

Commencement turns hostile when she dismisses widespread creative unemployment as temporary growing pains…

 Crowd roasts her for ignoring how entry level design, writing and media roles have already vanished…

 

 (I have seen idiot females with $200,000 in student debts who have humanities degrees and work as a manager

at a copy shop looking for some rich guy to marry them and pay off their debts.)




 https://citizenwatchreport.com/graduation-speaker-torches-arts-grads-tells-them-suck-it-up-on-ai-job-theft/#more-220739


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 They say they aren’t cutting staff today, but you don’t need a math degree to see where this equation ends.

  

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao drops a bombshell: Over 90% of the company’s internal code is now written by Claude Code…

The finance division is running 70+ specialized AI workflows, turning multi-hour reports into 30-minute tasks…

Outputs are reportedly 90% to 95% complete before a human eye ever touches them…

Rao insists headcount isn’t dropping, claiming employees are just shifting to “managers of AI agents”…

 The snake is eating its own tail in Silicon Valley…

 Rao also mentioned Claude’s use in the finance department. He said the AI produces financial statements and can generate the company’s monthly financial review at a point where it is 90% to 95% complete.

It’s this sort of talk that brings up the inevitable question of what effect AI will have on jobs. Rao claims that because Claude is acting as a productivity “accelerant,” Anthropic has actually hired a lot more people.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/they-say-they-arent-cutting-staff-today-but-you-dont-need-a-math-degree-to-see-where-this-equation-ends/#more-220719

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