These aspirations push people, especially the middle class ... I finally felt like I had "made it" when I moved into a house and found I had a room I had no idea what to do with.

The trap is so common it has a name: house poor. The common definition of house poor is having a mortgage or rent payment that is too high relative to one’s income, cash flow or net worth.

Vijayawada: Excise and Prohibition Minister Kollu Ravindra said the State government’s objective is to fulfill the dream of ...