Are we not "working hard enough"?

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I've heard some people say of my generation or younger that we are not "working hard enough" because that's the reason for not owning your own house or got more than one job as though it's "very easy" to obtain. I'm sure it's not impossible but how is it easy. If that was the case we wouldn't maybe have many statistics of fully grown adult children still living with their parents and so on. I remember someone saying that people from their mid/late 20s to early/mid 30s are less likely to own a house than any generation since the 1930s.

You pretty much have to make 6 figures to afford a median priced home here in the states. The median household income is below that so most new families cant own a own home. I was talking to AI and it said that only about the richest 5 to 10 percent of the American population can afford homes. Only the rich will own homes in the future. Its a math problem and the math aint mathing. There are a lot of reasons why homes are so unaffordable for millennials and Gen Z. I would say the American Dream is dead.

I don't know the situation in England but here in The USA it depends on where you are. On a modest income a small home is attainable in places like Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, and some spots in the south as well as some of the Midwest depending. On the coasts forget it or in trendy places like The Southwest.

Here in the USA IMO the government created this problem, through zoning laws, NIMBYism, and duties on building supplies.

You can get a home for about 50,000 dollars where I live but its going to be in a bad neighborhood but it sure beats being on the street.

little 1/6 acre parcels of scrubby undeveloped vacant land costs more than houses used to cost before COVID.

the ableist folks criticizing the houseless for "not working hard enough" are just magas and can be totally discounted.

Some Millennials and Gen Z could afford a home if they got a job as a roughneck on a drilling rig in Texas.

The housing problem seems to be quite similar in the UK to as it is in the USA.
I wonder if there could be a similar reason ?

Unless you get a really high paying job and nothing bad ever happens - you could get a house.

Its basically impossible for the average person.

Ave. price of UK home is about £292,000 when I last checked