$10.86 and $119.463 in today's dollars. Currently the federal minimum wage is $7.25 or $0.67 an hour in 1960s dollars.

Assuming 2 weeks off a year this would be an annual income of $43,440 or 36% of the home's value, less than 3 years wages. In 2025, the median home value is $416,900 and a couple earning the federal minimum wage would earn $29,000 per year, which is 7% of the home's value or 14 years worth of wages.

People were buying houses that were smaller despite having larger household sizes then.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-square-feet-larger-than-in-1973-and-living-space-per-person-has-nearly-doubled/

More housing is where most of our increases in wealth have gone for the past century.

EDIT:

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/05/25/the-size-of-a-home-the-year-you-were-born/

This has size increase by decade.

In 1920, the average size of a new house in the US was 1,048 square feet, 248 square feet per person.

By 2015, the average size was 2,657 square feet. 1,046 square feet per person.

In the US, we have some of the largest houses in the world.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/house-size-by-country

The Europeans manage to get by with considerably smaller houses. You could fit nearly three average British homes

the British tend to be on the small side on housing

inside one average American home.

EDIT2: Elon Musk got on the whole "small house" fad thing a few years back. He lives in a $50k, 400 square foot box, and he's the richest guy in the world. So we definitely could get by with considerably smaller houses.

He'll get right on it, after infrastructure week.

Two political parties in the US: one votes based on: “what’s best for everyone?” The other votes based on: “what’s best for ME?”

But here’s the kicker: the leadership of both parties (to varying degrees) only manages to administrate on what’s best for themselves.

"You do get defeated knowing that homes are so expensive after looking today," Bartolini said. "I hope people in power, they change the price of things. There has to be a way to make everything go cheaper. There's no way that it can just keep going up and up and up cause then people won't be able to live."

I think he wants to change it but maybe doesn't totally understand the real options for changing it.