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The universe is determined to keep as many millennials from buying homes as it can.

by BitwiseFool 5y ago

paulpauper 5y ago
millennial home ownership rates is only slightly below boomers when matched for age
- aazaa 5y ago
  Where do you get that, because this article says otherwise: > Millennials are less likely to be homeowners than baby boomers and Gen Xers. The homeownership rate among millennials ages 25 to 34 is 8 percentage points lower than baby boomers and 8.4 percentage points lower than Gen Xers in the same age group. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/98729/millennial_homeownership_0.pdf https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/98729/...
- aschearer 5y ago
  Not according to this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/20/millennials-share-us-housing-market-small-shrinking/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/20/millennia... "When baby boomers hit a median age of 35 in 1990, they owned nearly one-third of American real estate by value. In 2019, the millennial generation, with a median age of 31, owned just 4 percent... that gap will probably narrow by the time they see 35. But they’re not likely to reach 30 percent of the housing market — or even the 20 percent attained by the smaller Generation X at the same point in their lives."
Morvan 5y ago
>The universe That's a funny way to spell government appointed central bankers who fix the price of money.
- qeternity 5y ago
  You cannot blame CBs. I despise the current monetary policy as much as the next person but this is a function of society. We have stopped believing in “no pain no gain”. We think that everyone should be gifted a painless utopian existence in which nothing bad ever happens. Darwinian forces always win.
  - idiotsecant 5y ago
    I'm not sure you fully understand the experience of the typical young adult in this country right now. I'd say the phrase 'all pain no gain' is closer to reality. Compared with even the last generation (who had it pretty bad compared to the generation before them) the opportunity to have a reasonable standard of living is greatly reduced.
  - agogdog 5y ago
    In 1963 my grandparents bought a house on a single salary. They started saving when my grandmother gave birth at 16 (she was also disowned by her family). So sure, that's anecdotal... but a 19 year old buying a house with 3 years of savings from an apprenticeship and without any credit or collateral seems impossible to me today? I'm not sure there's an amount of pain available today to gain that much. If there is it seems like it would be dramatically more painful for the same level of gain?

The universe is determined to keep as many millennials from buying homes as it can.

paulpauper 5y ago

millennial home ownership rates is only slightly below boomers when matched for age

aazaa 5y ago
Where do you get that, because this article says otherwise: > Millennials are less likely to be homeowners than baby boomers and Gen Xers. The homeownership rate among millennials ages 25 to 34 is 8 percentage points lower than baby boomers and 8.4 percentage points lower than Gen Xers in the same age group. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/98729/millennial_homeownership_0.pdf https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/98729/...
aschearer 5y ago
Not according to this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/20/millennials-share-us-housing-market-small-shrinking/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/20/millennia... "When baby boomers hit a median age of 35 in 1990, they owned nearly one-third of American real estate by value. In 2019, the millennial generation, with a median age of 31, owned just 4 percent... that gap will probably narrow by the time they see 35. But they’re not likely to reach 30 percent of the housing market — or even the 20 percent attained by the smaller Generation X at the same point in their lives."

Morvan 5y ago

>The universe That's a funny way to spell government appointed central bankers who fix the price of money.

qeternity 5y ago
You cannot blame CBs. I despise the current monetary policy as much as the next person but this is a function of society. We have stopped believing in “no pain no gain”. We think that everyone should be gifted a painless utopian existence in which nothing bad ever happens. Darwinian forces always win.
- idiotsecant 5y ago
  I'm not sure you fully understand the experience of the typical young adult in this country right now. I'd say the phrase 'all pain no gain' is closer to reality. Compared with even the last generation (who had it pretty bad compared to the generation before them) the opportunity to have a reasonable standard of living is greatly reduced.
- agogdog 5y ago
  In 1963 my grandparents bought a house on a single salary. They started saving when my grandmother gave birth at 16 (she was also disowned by her family). So sure, that's anecdotal... but a 19 year old buying a house with 3 years of savings from an apprenticeship and without any credit or collateral seems impossible to me today? I'm not sure there's an amount of pain available today to gain that much. If there is it seems like it would be dramatically more painful for the same level of gain?