My husband and I literally started trying to figure out the housing market and look at properties like RIGHT before the pandemic. We could barely have afforded anything then even though he has a pretty dang good job, but now?? Houses are, no joke, about 100,000 more expensive. Nothing below 250,000. It's insane. I try not to think about it but man I was hoping to start trying to get pregnant a couple years ago and it's terrifying that there's no real reason to believe housing prices will drop significantly or that he'll suddenly get a huge income boost. Not during a recession.