{"id":21061,"date":"2026-07-01T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=21061"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:46:02","slug":"media-single-income-households-are-a-bygone-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/07\/01\/media-single-income-households-are-a-bygone-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: &#8220;Single income households are a bygone era&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/markets\/economists-say-single-income-households-are-a-bygone-era\/ss-AA1TLTkR?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=6a456cbf63b64be58ac3e00767304c05&amp;ei=18\">Economists say single-income households are a &#8216;bygone era&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the actual data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"721\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trend-in-one-two-or-zero-household-incomes-since-1970-version-2.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trend-in-one-two-or-zero-household-incomes-since-1970-version-2.jpg 721w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trend-in-one-two-or-zero-household-incomes-since-1970-version-2-600x317.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trend-in-one-two-or-zero-household-incomes-since-1970-version-2-511x270.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being truthful and accurate is not something the media knows how to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When home prices are normalized to square footage, the median income to home price ratio has been surprisingly constant over decades. Unfortunately media morons do not understand that homes of the past were 1,000 to 1,500 sq ft but today are averaging 2400 sq ft, which is down from a recent peak of almost 2700 sq ft. Homes of the past are not anything like homes of today. See <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2025\/12\/13\/1960-1970s-versus-today\/\">The \u201cBoomers\u201d versus \u201cGen Z\u201d today: the 60s\/70s vs today \u2013 Coldstreams<\/a> for why you cannot just compare home prices or car prices or much of anything across multiple decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/median-income-to-home-price-ratio-normalized.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/median-income-to-home-price-ratio-normalized.jpg 830w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/median-income-to-home-price-ratio-normalized-600x176.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/median-income-to-home-price-ratio-normalized-768x226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/median-income-to-home-price-ratio-normalized-604x178.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that is not what the data says. The media doomermorons made that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,357,359,17,29,30,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-mill-click-bait","category-daily-doomer","category-everything-is-awful","category-facts","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21067,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}