• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s money in 1980 dollars. 15k per year was a lot of of money. A house was about 20-25k.

    • Chapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      That’s an exaggeration. The median price for new construction in 1980 was $64,600. [1] As for existing housing stock, the median home value in 1980 was $47,200. [2] As housing prices are heavily right skewed, the prices of cheap housing is far closer to the median than the price of expensive housing. Based on a cursory overview of some charts, it seems like the bottom 20% of houses are no more that 30% cheaper than the median, putting them in the $30k range.

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        1 year ago

        We are talking Kansas City. Not a general area like the Midwest.

        My parents home was 20k in 1975. My grandparents homes were about 10k in the same time frame.

        Kansas City was very cheap at the time. Yes there were more expensive homes but in the 1980’s working class families didn’t have McMansions.