The Lost Home Owner: “Soaring House Prices And Lack of Decently Paid Jobs” Affect Young

Tuesday, December 29, 2015
By Paul Martin

Mac Slavo
December 29th, 2015
SHTFplan.com

If it seems like the youngest generation of adults are missing out on starting their lives, and becoming real grown-ups… it might be because they are.

And despite what you might be thinking, it’s not just a case of fixation on vapid social media, cultural decline or laziness among millenials that is to blame. There is definitely a problem with the economic realities of the day that is making a major contribution to this growing problem as well.

The destruction of opportunity has been perhaps the biggest consequence of the economic crisis of 2008, and it continues to undermine the majority of Americans.

Housing and rent prices have soared, along with other sharp increases in the cost of living. Meanwhile, student loan debt has been absolutely crushing (and threatens to topple the economic system once again) and college graduates have been mismatched with a severe shortage of good jobs and decent wages – forcing far too many into competing for menial or basic service jobs.

This and more has put the decent lifestyles of the Middle Class, long the norm for most Americans, out of reach, particularly those just setting out in the world. Hard work be damned.

And thus, a massive wave of arrested development and immaturity has been bred at the hands of the bankers.

Homeownership is statistically at its lowest rate (63.7%) since the 60s, while the rate for those under 30 is at or near the all-time lowest point since the records began.

This article in the Daily Mail focuses on the issue in Britain, but the same trends are definitely happening in the United States and many other parts of the world:

Home ownership among young people is at its lowest level since records began, according to new figures released today.

Only 45 per cent of 20 to 30 year-olds in Britain currently own their own property, as critics say soaring home and rental prices are keeping them locked out of the housing market.

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