Australians aren’t alone in their housing pain
Affordability and supply have become big issues in the US as immigration and high interest rates further strain the market – a scenario all too familiar in Australia.
Abla Assikouyo, a nanny who emigrated from Togo, and her husband Komi, who works at an Amazon warehouse, have just experienced one of life’s great challenges: buying their first home in America.
But the couple’s experience was made almost unbearable by pressures all too familiar to millions of Australians: cost-of-living strains, rising home prices, high interest rates, and supply shortages.
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