The term "starter home" is so strange. Buying a home is so difficult as it is.
Who is thinking about any home you manage to buy without going into horrible debt as just a "start" ? A start of what?
It seems like one of those things where rather than say "homes for poor people" we have this goofy fiction that someday I'm gonna move out of the Bronx and buy a condo in Manhattan. No. Some people just aren't ever going to buy a mansion and that's... fine? Or it should be. Right?