if it wasn’t for government housing, I’d be homeless. I am eternally thankful for my small little apartment. It’s better than being homeless.
Gen Z's can't afford to move out
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.kunr.org/local-stories/2025-10-08/gen-zs-cant-afford-to-move-out
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a millennial, I’m just thankful that they aren’t being blamed for it like I was. The first 10 years of young adulthood was just the media blaming us for being squeezed out of adulthood.
Maybe they don’t feel like they can get away with blaming gen Z because these are the boomers grandkids they’re talking about and not thier direct children.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It was incredible some boomers couldn’t see that between college debt, and a radically different world of cost in housing to say nothing of food, transportation and energy costs, that their generation’s corporate permissiveness and privatization had collectively taken away what was so generously given to them by society.
Corporate PR pushed the narratives to be fair, it was an early attempt to confuse or distract the clear end of the American dream for young Americans. Your college degree is worthless and your enormous loans are non-discharageable even in bankruptcy, and you need 10 years at median gross salary to buy a home. Meanwhile, salaries are now aggressively managed down or to a “market average” under the guide of equity but more to control paying for the value of work. The trap was laid and 30 years or so of Americans were slaughtered in it’s teeth.
magic_internet_wizard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s also a question of finding and keeping a job in the first place. I have a four year degree and I am completely unable to find anything whatsoever minus some work I’ve done in the past that didn’t last long. It has been narrowed down to my disability of ASD according to my mental health professionals. I hate this economy.