Ich komme aus Griechenland und war sofort überrascht, wie günstig Wohnraum in den USA ist.
Quelle: https://unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/2026/05/wcr_2026.pdf
Von Outrageous_Use4283
Ich komme aus Griechenland und war sofort überrascht, wie günstig Wohnraum in den USA ist.
Quelle: https://unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/2026/05/wcr_2026.pdf
Von Outrageous_Use4283
49 Kommentare
Idk
Yet people do buy houses in impossibly affordable countries…
I’m surprised by Australia. From everything I’ve read online over the years I would have assumed they had it at least as bad as Canada.
Important perspectives for Americans. I know Redditors like to talk about the US being the worst country on earth, but many things are better here than in most other countries. If you think it’s hard to own a house in the US, try buying one in Europe or Canada
Just doesn’t make much sense to do this at an entire country level. There are enormous housing affordability differences within each country
For example, no one can afford to live in places like San Francisco or Bozeman or Jackson Hole, but you could live in Memphis or Albuquerque for relatively affordable prices
For example I bought a house priced 250k $ in Turkiye which is not even highest priced area, just a regular apartment block 3+1. For such a low income country prices is really huge.
The thing with maps like this is that since it goes with an entire country it erases the vast differences inside a country. Parts of the US are probably worse in price than anywhere else in the world, and other parts are better than anywhere else.
ah, yeah. they surely have data on North Korea lmao that alone should make you question the whole map
UN declares entire world impossible.
Literally 90% of Chinese own their own homes lmao what is this insane map
I think it’s less about housing being cheap in the US and more about Americans earning 3-5 times their counterparts in Canada and much of Europe. This map focuses on a ratio.
Now break down the US by states. I’m from Hawaiʻi. We’re definitely in the ‚impossibly unaffordable‘ category.
Spain, even bad, is better than most EU countries, because it has many secondary cities and villages with quite affordable prices. Big cities are much more expensive.
Turns out the situation in the Netherlands is not that bad after all, comparatively. Didn’t expect that.
where’s the second “seriously unaffordable” country? did they count alaska as a separate one?
The pain of not being born in South Africa. Land of opportunity. What I wouldn’t give.
China being highly unaffordable yet 91% of adults being homeowners makes me doubt the validity of the data entirely.
North Korea is pretty affordable LOL
Americans like to say their house market is absurdly expensive, they often make it sound worse than it actually is.
Its the same where I live, we are having a „housing crisis“ but that is mostly only if you rent. My and a couple of friends of mine have bought a house in the last ~3 years while being in our 20’s. It only becomes hard to buy a house if you earn the minimum, which is to be expected if your income is low.
The Saudi / UAE figures are likely skewed by the fact that citizen’s houses are heavily subsidised by the government such that they cost them very little. Most expat residents will be very far away from affording to buy property,
Relatively speaking, if nothing is affordable, everything is affordable right?
North Korea being moderately unaffordable, compared to the rest of the world being either severely unaffordable or impossible unaffordable is an insane statistic.
This is median house price to median income ratio I suppose?
Hold on, so you are saying, United States…. not so expensive? Damn, I guess I just need to lock in.
I immediately noticed that the Data is incorrect
Basically the whole world is ‚impossible‘?
Well, that’s impossible
Second point: affordable ends at 3? That’s a real joke
Capitalism has outlived its purpose. It’s time to move on.
In my region of Canada I just bought a beautiful triplex as a rental/living unit for $610,000 CAD
Same Triplex in Vancouver would be 1.5 million or more.
Yay,, modern techno-feudalism. You’ll own nothing, and you’ll like it
Canada is very misleading. The big cities are unaffordable but there are many smaller towns and rural areas where it is still very affordable.
Canada is over that Ratio! 10-15 times !
How do they compensate for regional differences inside a country?
It’s easily 10 times the price between non-desirable and highly desirable places here.
I would love to know the calculations involved here, and if credit-lending is taken into account.
I wonder if the one for Sweden doesn’t count Bostadsrätter? A median price of 4 million SEK sounds high to me, especially considering how dirt cheap houses and apartments are outside of the biggest cities.
Lets move to south africa then
Weird map.
No data in Kenya, the most advanced East African economy or Uganda an open economy but yes to South Sudan and the CAR?
It makes me sick how almost no one thinks the system should change to stop using homes as spectulation for profits and make them affordable for all
best korea strikes again!
Funny how they exclude countries where houses are affordable.
You heard it mfs, everyone to north korea!
„unhabitat.org“
How clear and precise.
Prices in NZ have come down a lot in Auckland and Wellington. Queenstown is probably keeping us in the ‘impossibly unaffordable’ range
California even as one of the worst us states wouldn’t be that bad.
Its median household income is 100k and a house median is 750k. 7.5 would still put it above most of europe
Yeah, I had a feeling that the situation in Spain and Netherlands could not possibly be as severe as they made it out to be.
I smell bullshit. The majority of the world is impossibly unaffordable? I wouldn’t trust a damn thing the UN says. They lost their credibility a long time ago. Pointless organization
Why is there a fertility crisis??????
>Russia
>no data
They can’t open HH and Domclick?
North Korea
How is Saudi Arabia that affordable? Is it all the empty desert?
How is china that expensive? I get incomes are low, but didn’t they build a stupid amount of housing?
North Korea??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣