This is the chart I am referring to concerning mortgage payments, which IMO have remained within 10 percentage points of where they've been since 2000:
There is a sharper rise now of higher payments, but historically its not even where it was in 2006 and still is lower than figures not seen in this present chart, like the the 1980s.
In the end home prices don't march up in a vacuum, the money has to come from somewhere. People pay these prices and they can do so because they are skilled workers who are paid such incomes to afford homes in the Bay area or Boston or other high cost of living areas. It's not all private equity. When you add more high income jobs to an area than units of housing for decades, a housing crisis for the working class is the natural result, but for high income earners they will always be paid enough to afford the median mortgage payment or else the median will shift accordingly to meet the market where it is.
