What if AI-led income gains lift first-time-buyer demand and starter housing?
Rising real incomes from AI-augmented productivity improve affordability for younger workers, supporting first-time-buyer demand and starter-home absorption; the labor-income-to-housing channel re-rates entry-level builders.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. Rising real incomes from AI-augmented productivity improve affordability for younger workers, supporting first-time-buyer demand and starter-home absorption; the labor-income-to-housing channel re-rates entry-level builders. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Consumer spending ▲ · Mortgage rates ▼ · Risk appetite ▲ · Robotics productivity ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.