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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by bumby on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:35PM (#29599194)
[1] is a bit noisy because it's monthly data, but if you give it a 12-month moving average, it definitely seems like housing availability was substantially above current levels from about 1973-1992.

I'm curious if there are any theories besides wage stagnation that caused that change?

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSACSR

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by whimsicalism on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:57PM (#29600308)
Hm. I'm not sure that is actually really measuring supply so much as liquidity.
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