“Two maps, one from 2000 and the other from 2007, show the share of Americans taking on huge new debt to buy a home increasing dramatically across the country”

The Map Scroll: The Housing Bubble, Mapped

A greate visual that gives a good idea how bad the mortage situation really was/is. The number of counties with over 4% of people getting a home loan for a houses over 4x their income went from only a handful, to substantial portions of the east coast and western US. There’s also a large pocket in eastern TN, northern GA, and western NC and SC.