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I see comics/memes posted about this constantly and while it is slightly true, it’s not true enough to really be funny, to me at least.
62 vs 69% is a very meh difference, it’s still roughly 2 out of 3 people who’ve bought a house.
And Gen Z is actually tracking very slightly higher than Gen X:
This fails to track the debt occured with those purchases
I think a lot of the sentiment comes from the absurd difficulty in getting there and maintaining it now. Single-salary home ownership is just dead and buried for the middle-class and even with more than one person working full-time, it's a grinding slog to make monthly payments and expensive upkeep that never ends.
Also, backing up the request to check sources. Some data just asks if you live in an "owned home" and a vast number of young people are just living with their families and parents now through adulthood. That counts to some surveys as "owning a home."
What's your source for that? I'd like to see the methodology as it can make a huge difference
If I'm living with family because I can't afford rent, some studies would consider me to be a homeowner because I reside in an owner-occupied home, despite the fact that would be a misleading statistic
Alternatively, if I'm living with a spouse/partner and they own the home, with only their name on the deed, I am still effectively a homeowner but may or may not be included depending on methodology
Source: https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-rate-home-purchases/
Edit: downvoted for providing a source? Really?
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