Affordability at 10-year low, but no need to panic

Housing affordability has reached a 10-year low. Even so, homes are still more affordable now than at any time prior to 2009. Accordingly, improving inventory levels and further gradual easing in mortgage lending standards, not affordability, are the key developments needed to boost housing activity.

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