{
  "id": 10554126,
  "title": "High mortgage rates compound housing affordability challenges",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/high-mortgage-rates-compound-housing-affordability-challenges",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T22:40:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PBS NewsHour",
    "slug": "pbs-newshour",
    "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/high-mortgage-rates-compound-housing-affordability-challenges"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is back above 7% for the first time in twenty months. It's rough news for the housing market and homebuyers already struggling with rising prices elsewhere. It comes as Treasury yields, which impact borrowing costs across the economy, hit multi-decade highs. Amna Nawaz discussed more with David Wessell of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}