Housing Crisis

Midwest and East Coast cities -- like Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh -- are some of the easiest places to save for a down payment on a house, according to a new report from real estate company Trulia.
This ideology didn't just happen. It was four decades in the making. Sachs and Stanley refined it; private equity and financial engineers distilled it; Merril, Stearns and Joe the Plumber got drunk on it.
Know your means, and live beneath them or make more money.