# Professor Lawrence White is comments on buying a home in New York City

1 School News March 27, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/heathersenison/2019/03/27/why-it-could-take-18-years-to-save-for-a-home-in-new-york-city/#7a9967fe77d5) -- "'This is an expensive area, there’s no question,' [White](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white) said. 'That does make the home-buying process a bit more frustrating and a bit more difficult, but not as difficult as that 18-year number would indicate.'"

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