MB Civic

Wasik is the National Press Club award-winning author of Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream – He writes, “You would think with home prices still dropping like hailstones in most areas, that homes would be bargains. The present buyer’s market obscures a key fact about the housing crisis though: millions sought the refuge of cheap credit, subprime and adjustable loans during the boom because they were the easiest routes to homeownership in a time when house prices far outpaced income growth. The sad fact is that the Great American Dream is still out of reach for far too many, and it was the declining affordability of decent houses that was one of the triggers of the housing bust” .. read more