Housing prices, mortgage rates, and inflation have skyrocketed. Yet many young couples are still buying homes. How are they doing it? And should they be?
But the baby sleeps among the suits and dresses in his parents’ walk-in closet. First-grade Chaim sometimes locks himself into the kids’ bedroom just to be alone. The dining room features a precariously balanced pile of toys; the blow-up pool and roller blades and boxes of succah decorations and old stretchies all live on the five-foot-wide porch. There’s nowhere else to put them.
Even the bathroom, which used to be a sacred space, has its door banged down if occupied for any number of consecutive minutes.
Sometimes, Brochi straps all four kids into the car and drives, drives, drives.
She isn’t ready to go back to her cramped two-bedroom apartment.
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