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Intergenerational housing is the historical norm. It seems the 20th century was a flash in the pan, if income and wealth inequality on top of social changes hav
by Dumblydorr 7y ago
Intergenerational housing is the historical norm. It seems the 20th century was a flash in the pan, if income and wealth inequality on top of social changes have led us here. Do the wealthy care about this and declining birth rates due to lower resources and strained youth? They control policy and there's no policy promoting improvements on this front except from optimistic primary candidates.
I just don't see this changing. I'm 30 and over half of my friends spent at least 2 years at home in their 20s. Every single time the issue was finances, they needed cheap digs as their debt and low income disallowed renting.
- FreedomToCreate 7y agoIntergenerational housing doesn't work for people who end up living in a different city than there parents or grandparents due to work. And a large portion of the population is in that situation. I grew up in the rural mid-west. Good luck working on robotics there. I had to move to a city to get the resources I needed to do the work I want. However that city also happens to have no housing and exorbitant rent. With rent eating up 30% of my income, taxes the other 30%, the path to saving for a small home in the city puts me a decade, if not decades behind where the previous generation began to set-up there homes.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoHence it’s very important to be born to the right parents.