In the decade since the financial crisis, young buyers looking for their first home have increasingly found themselves priced out of the market.

It was a trend that added insult to the injuries inflicted by the 2007-09 recession, when unemployment peaked at 10 percent, as well as by stagnant wage growth in the slow recovery afterward.

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