Despite the housing slump, most middle income workers still don’t earn enough to buy a median-priced home in their hometowns, according to the Center for Housing Policy.

The center, an arm of the affordable housing advocacy group of the National Housing Conference (NHC), compared housing costs in 201 metro areas with the median wages in those areas for 60 major vocations, such as police, firemen and teachers.

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