{"id":8,"date":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/michelemovesmountains-com\/2026\/09\/04\/americans-earning-109152-can-afford-homeownership\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","slug":"americans-earning-109152-can-afford-homeownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/04\/americans-earning-109152-can-afford-homeownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Earning $109,152 Can Afford Homeownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Home affordability in the U.S. declined for the fifth straight month in June, requiring an annual income of about $109,152 to qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced single-family home at $446,400. High home prices and mortgage rates averaging 6.57% continue to limit homeownership. Although affordability improved compared to last year due to rising incomes and slightly lower rates, monthly trends show buying remains challenging for middle-class buyers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greatandhra.com\/articles\/special-articles\/americans-need-109152-a-year-to-afford-a-home\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home affordability in the U.S. declined for the fifth straight month in June, requiring an annual income of about $109,152 to qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced single-family home at $446,400. High home prices and mortgage rates averaging 6.57% continue to limit homeownership. Although affordability improved compared to last year due to rising incomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelemovesmountains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}