Millennials are a bit old to be complaining about owning a home.
Guns, rope, wood and torches are at inflated prices, but in total more affordable than rent.
Meanwhile, boomer retirement funds are doing great.
Breathing is still free. For now.
Millennials should pressing their elected officials to change zoning regulations to increase the supply of housing! or elect new ones that will!
I wouldn’t be surprised to be priced out of a drink of water at this point.
Cue the avocado toast and latte jokes.
I mean yes but also why should anyone sell them a home for what they deem affordable? I sure as hell am not willing to discount the sale of my home to help someone get an affordable house.
“When will they stop their *bitching*!!”
“Venting”? WTF BI?
You don’t “vent” about not paying rent, you *panic*. Because the next step is homelessness.
JFC right wing corporate media sucks.
I can technically afford rent, but I would like to be able to afford just like…a small 2 or 3 bedroom home, maybe even just a townhouse. Hell, if I could find a nice duplex for rent, that’d be cool. Currently $1625 a month for a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment.
So when does this madness end?
We should start an empty nester tax. We need to encourage boomers to downsize and part of that should be making them uncomfortable enough to want to sell the oversized homes they have been hoarding. 1500sqft per resident should be enough but after that we should have a luxury tax. That tax should go towards building additional housing stock.
My parents were a taxi driver and a secretary, but they bought a 3 bedroom house right outside a major city when they were 32 years old (in 1983).
That same house would go for a million dollars now, and average 2 bedroom rent in the area is $2,800 per month.
I’m 9 years older than they were when they bought that house.
Unlike my cab driver and secretary parents, I graduated from university, a prestige one, and I make a lot more money then they did, adjusted for inflation. But I definitely can’t afford a house like that, and I definitely can’t afford rent like that.
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Millennials are a bit old to be complaining about owning a home.
Guns, rope, wood and torches are at inflated prices, but in total more affordable than rent.
Meanwhile, boomer retirement funds are doing great.
Breathing is still free. For now.
Millennials should pressing their elected officials to change zoning regulations to increase the supply of housing! or elect new ones that will!
I wouldn’t be surprised to be priced out of a drink of water at this point.
Cue the avocado toast and latte jokes.
I mean yes but also why should anyone sell them a home for what they deem affordable? I sure as hell am not willing to discount the sale of my home to help someone get an affordable house.
“When will they stop their *bitching*!!”
“Venting”? WTF BI?
You don’t “vent” about not paying rent, you *panic*. Because the next step is homelessness.
JFC right wing corporate media sucks.
I can technically afford rent, but I would like to be able to afford just like…a small 2 or 3 bedroom home, maybe even just a townhouse. Hell, if I could find a nice duplex for rent, that’d be cool. Currently $1625 a month for a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment.
So when does this madness end?
We should start an empty nester tax. We need to encourage boomers to downsize and part of that should be making them uncomfortable enough to want to sell the oversized homes they have been hoarding. 1500sqft per resident should be enough but after that we should have a luxury tax. That tax should go towards building additional housing stock.
My parents were a taxi driver and a secretary, but they bought a 3 bedroom house right outside a major city when they were 32 years old (in 1983).
That same house would go for a million dollars now, and average 2 bedroom rent in the area is $2,800 per month.
I’m 9 years older than they were when they bought that house.
Unlike my cab driver and secretary parents, I graduated from university, a prestige one, and I make a lot more money then they did, adjusted for inflation. But I definitely can’t afford a house like that, and I definitely can’t afford rent like that.
Economy is doing great though.
No way, biden says the economy is great.