{"id":34229,"date":"2025-02-24T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/i-feel-trapped-how-home-ownership-has-become-a-nightmare-for-many-americans\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:08:35","slug":"i-feel-trapped-how-home-ownership-has-become-a-nightmare-for-many-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/i-feel-trapped-how-home-ownership-has-become-a-nightmare-for-many-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel trapped\u2019: how home ownership has become a nightmare for many Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores in the US say they\u2019re grappling with raised mortgage and loan interest rates and exploding insurance premiums<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bought my home in a hurry in 2020,\u201d said Meg, 60, an office manager from Maryland. \u201cIt was less expensive to take on a mortgage than to keep paying ever-increasing rents for my college-student daughter and me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now housing costs consume 50% of her income.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/24\/us-home-ownership-mortgage-interest-rates-insurance-premiums\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores in the US say they\u2019re grappling with raised mortgage and loan interest rates and exploding insurance premiums \u201cI bought my home in a hurry in 2020,\u201d said Meg, 60, an office manager from Maryland. \u201cIt was less expensive to take on a mortgage than to keep paying ever-increasing rents for my college-student daughter and &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I feel trapped\u2019: how home ownership has become a nightmare for many Americans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/i-feel-trapped-how-home-ownership-has-become-a-nightmare-for-many-americans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I feel trapped\u2019: how home ownership has become a nightmare for many Americans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}