> Yet they could afford _homes_ I’m not from USA, (so only educated guess whether statistics lie), but I wager that millions could not afford homes then and mi

> Yet they could afford _homes_ I’m not from USA, (so only educated guess whether statistics lie), but I wager that millions could not afford homes then and millions can afford a home today. My most minimal effort attempt at stats follows. https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rate-in-the-us-since-2003/#:~:text=The%20homeownership%20rate%20in%20the,and%20decimated%20the%20housing%20market https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat.... > …in 2023 the proportion of households occupied by owners declined to 65.7 percent… Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_... (Shows that it was bellow 70% in 1989) first graph has very sharp peaks and dips, but please note that the y axis has values from 62 till 70. Based on this I would say that it would be misleading to state “in 1980 people could afford homes and today we can’t afford” But I can see a lot of “outrage” in US media. My unrequested speculation: more people got college and university degrees, but that did not change their ability to own a home. (But it did change their expectation, especially how pricey degrees seem to be in USA) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_th... (percentage of educated population had has risen steadily since 1950)