During the Great depression, the average wage was $0.43 per hour and the average American household cost $3,900, meaning you would need 9,070 hours of work to pay off a house. Right now, the current average wage is $11.30 and the average cost of a house is $439,716, meaning you would need 12,066 hours of work to pay off an average house. This concludes that it is currently more dificult to buy a house than it did in the great depression. bruh.