(1 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston – 10 January 2025
1. Wide of Julieta Lopez unloading her dishwasher
UPSOUND (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner: “You know this is my first dishwasher?”
2. Medium of Lopez unloading her dishwasher
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"It’s taken me 30 years. I’ve gone through illness, financial woes, but it was worth it. Get you a piece of the pie. Build your generational wealth. Be your own landlord."
4. Wide of Lopez’s condo
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"I’m almost 64 years old. I’ve been living in my first time home for about two years. I was able to buy it through my savings, a program through the city of Boston and a few other first-time home-buying programs."
6. Over-the-shoulder shot of Lopez watching a house-hunting cable television program in her living room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"You have companies buying houses. You have outside entities buying houses. You have people that are buying houses that have more disposable resources than you. So, you have to have programs to help the average person get a house."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Billerica, Massachusetts – 23 January 2025
8. Close up of a real estate for sale signage
9. Wide of a house for sale
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington D.C. – 23 January 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McCabe, Georgetown University:
"Homeownership remains really central to the American dream. It’s one of the few issues where everybody, almost everybody agrees, right? People want to own their own homes."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Billerica, Massachusetts – 23 January 2025
11. Close up of a real estate for sale signage
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington D.C. – 23 January 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McCabe, Georgetown University:
"Because the obstacles are pretty high, the dream may be unfulfilled for many people that want to buy a home."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston – 10 January 2025
13. Wide of Lopez in her living room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"The housing market is very difficult for first time home buyers. It’s low stock, high prices and the prices keep going up. So, you have to make sure that you … it’s almost like going to war."
15. Wide of Lopez watching television in her living room
16. Close up of a quote from the “Wizard of Oz” movie painted on Lopez’s wall
UPSOUND (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner: “You won’t believe this … my mother’s favorite movie was the “Wizard of Oz.”
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"I can’t believe … I wake up, I’m, like, ‘this is mine. I did it. I finally did it.’ And these are happy tears because I did it."
18. Pan left that begins with close up of the doorbell to Lopez’s condo and ends with wide view of the foyer as seen from the doorway
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"My mortgage is $2,100 a month. My rent was $2,600 and it was going to go up to $2,900."
20. Wide of the condo’s front doors
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
"It makes me feel empowered. It made me feel like I got a part of the American dream."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Billerica, Massachusetts – 23 January 2025
22. Various of a construction crew preparing install asphalt shingles on a house under construction
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington D.C. – 23 January 2025
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McCabe, Georgetown University:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston – 10 January 2025
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