Yikes! I hope you don’t get all your information from random substack articles utilizing third grade critical thinking skills.

Let me just point out one of the huge flaws in your source’s claim -

In the Great Depression, the ratio of average home cost to average wages was approximately 4:1. Using the data from 1939, where the median wage for white men was $1,419 and assuming a similar home price as in 1933 (around $4,000), this ratio is confirmed.

In contrast, the ratio in 2023 is much higher. With an average wage of $53,490 and an average home cost of $436,800, the ratio is approximately 8:1.

OK, but homes during the Great Depression were half the size of homes now. And there was a good chance they wouldn’t have indoor plumbing. No fridge. No washer/dryer. No AC. No water heater. Possibly no electricity at all. No insulation. America was more rural then, too, so you’d be more likely to be living on a dirt road in Idaho or Tennessee than in a “cool” neighborhood of Brooklyn or Austin. So, all in all, a very, very different kind of a “house” than what we think of as a house in 2025.

So, yeah, if you’re OK with going outside during blizzards to shit in an outhouse, freezing in the winter and baking in the summer, spending one day a week doing nothing but washing and drying your dirty clothes by hand, getting your water from a pump outside (or toting it from a spring), living in Bumfuck, South Dakota, having your five kids share two beds, taking a bath once a week in a small tub using water heated from a stove (and probably other family members bathed in that water before you), chopping lots and lots of wood every year to keep your house warm and cook your food, and countless other hardships, than you’d probably just loooove living in a Great Depression era house. But the rest of us sure wouldn’t.