eli5 – Why is the cost of housing so high compared to wages?

Question

I see charts from the 1960’s – 2000 showing wages keeping up with the cost of housing. Then there’s a huge boom in housing cost. What factors caused the price to jump so high? Is it only the low interest rates, or did something else happen?

For example: [https://imgur.com/a/8HWIlqx](https://imgur.com/a/8HWIlqx)

Edit:

This guys just uploaded a video today answering the question I posted. He says a lot of the same things that you guys said too[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL9DBjfhWAE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL9DBjfhWAE)

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Answer 1

Where did you get this graph? It doesn’t appear to be right. Certainly “growth rate” is just flat-out wrong – it presumably means “growth from 1960 baseline”. But even then, the median household income line, even adjusted for inflation, is just blatantly false.