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Rising mortgage rates squeeze housing market at bad time for GOP
Original: How rising mortgage rates are hitting the housing market hard — at a terrible time for GOP
Rising mortgage rates are pushing home affordability to painful levels, cooling the housing market as buyers pull back and sales slow. The Hill notes the timing is politically awkward for Republicans, with housing costs weighing on voters heading into a sensitive period. Commentators are debating how much economic pain will shape the political landscape and whether policymakers can do anything to ease rate pressures.
Why now: Mortgage rates climbing is worsening housing affordability, creating economic anxiety with political consequences for the GOP.
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