(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. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
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"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."
3. Medium of Lopez unloading her dishwasher
4. Wide of Lopez’s condo
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
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"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:
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"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
10. Close up of a real estate for sale signage
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington D.C. – 23 January 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McCabe, Georgetown University:
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"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
12. Wide of Lopez in her living room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
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"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."
14. Close up of a quote from the “Wizard of Oz” movie painted on Lopez’s wall
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
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"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."
16. 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
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
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"My mortgage is $2,100 a month. My rent was $2,600 and it was going to go up to $2,900."
18. Pan right that begins with close up of Lopez’s hand as she waters plants in her living room and ends with wide of the homeowner walking to her dining room to water additional plants
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Julieta Lopez, First-Time Homeowner:
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"It makes me feel empowered. It made me feel like I got a part of the American dream."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington D.C. – 23 January 2025
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian McCabe, Georgetown University:
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"Those that already have wealth, often already have family or generational wealth, are able to use that to enter the housing market. And so we’re seeing sort of inequality over probably deepening over the long term when people aren’t able to enter into homeownership."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Billerica, Massachusetts – 23 January 2025
21. Various of a construction crew preparing install asphalt shingles on a house under construction
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The financial benefits are clear.
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