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📘 Title:
Hickory NC News & Views – October 5, 2025: The Cost of Home and the Shrinking Center

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https://thehickoryhound.blogspot.com/2025/10/hickory-nc-news-views-october-5-2025.html

📝 SEO Summary:
This edition examines Hickory’s housing market through the lens of affordability and survival. Using the Cost-of-Home Index and Household Comfort Index, it reveals how middle-income families are being priced out of ownership, renters remain vulnerable, and rising mortgage rates and stagnant wages squeeze the city’s civic foundation.

🔍 Key Topics Covered:

  • Housing affordability in Hickory, NC across 2005–2025

  • Cost-of-Home Index (CoHI) and Household Comfort Index (HCI) explained

  • Impact of rising mortgage rates, taxes, insurance, and PMI

  • Rent vs. ownership trade-offs and equity consequences

  • The fate of Solidly Middle households in the “Shrinking Center”

  • Anchored vs. exposed groups in housing security

  • Policy options: zoning reform, tax relief, down-payment support

  • Why home costs are central to Hickory’s civic future

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#AffordableHousing #MortgageRates #RentBurden #ShrinkingCenter #CivicPlanning #TheHickoryHound #TheHoundsSignal #ShellCooperative

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