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Low demand constraining sales, not low supply

Recent suggestions that home sales are being held back by a lack of inventory are misguided as the excess inventory may still amount to one million homes. Moreover, the "shadow inventory" may consist of another four million homes. The problem is therefore not a shortage of supply, but a chronic lack of demand.

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