Usually means: Owning a home, financially strained.
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  1. house poor: Wiktionary
  2. house poor: Dictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. House poor: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. House Poor: Investopedia
  5. house poor: Financial dictionary

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  1. house poor: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (house poor)

adjective:  (idiomatic) In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income.

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