Still just in his 20s, Cody Eades is a grizzled veteran of the American housing market. After he and his wife split up in 2019, the couple sold a home they had purchased in Orlando. They made a small profit. Mr. Eades left town in an RV with a dog and his part of the earnings, working remotely and following the open road. “Problem was,” he says, “I had no home.” Why We Wrote This Finding a reasonably priced home used to be easy in the South.