Financial Strength Housing, wealth & cost of living

Housing affordability

High housing costs are absorbing a growing share of household income and excluding younger households from ownership, feeding political discontent and shaping migration, family formation and labour mobility.

Rank: 207; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 0.38×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 38; 100 is the typical trend
Change: −5%; WoW
Volatility: ±4%; Shifting

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

10×

#23

1.4×

#110

1.4×

#132

0.97×

#173

0.84×

#162

0.46×

#207

0.39×

#235

0.37×

#214

0.28×

#236

0.21×

#244

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

3.6×

#56

3.6×

#49

1.4×

#101

1.1×

#134

0.79×

#174

0.69×

#189

0.48×

#205

0.41×

#205

0.38×

#231

0.37×

#225

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

15×

#10

13×

#18

7.3×

#45

6.7×

#56

3.2×

#76

2.7×

#66

2.1×

#117

1.9×

#75

1.8×

#98

1.4×

#132

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 48.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Housing affordability, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.