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Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class by chiefalchemist on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:08PM (#22123060)
The irony of the lower down payment? It increases demand; which obviously increases price.

So they are able to afford what they normally can't afford because of the tool (i.e., lower down payment) which helped make homes unaffordable.

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