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> can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now?

More. Gen Z is ahead of previous generations. “30% of 25-year olds owned their home in 2022, higher than the 27% rate for Gen Xers when they were the same age.”

> Why?

Low interest rates during the pandemic helped, but generally homeownership stays steady regardless.

> Are they really that much more "lazy" than their parents generation?

Huh? Oh, did you assume the answer was “less”? Guess you should have looked up the numbers first, or at least not gotten your ideas about the world from Reddit.




It is interesting, isn't it? Statistics show that everything is rosy, and yet people's lived experience doesn't seem to match: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/05/biden-headaches-sta...

You dismiss Reddit so readily. You must believe 90% of Russians support Putin. After all, that is also an official number published by a government authority.




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