As family homelessness hits record highs, a few school districts are beginning to offer parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night. Some families prefer the option over emergency shelters
They can’t make houses cheaper, after all. That would hurt the bankers and mortgage companies and property investors.
Purchasing an actual house is out of reach for the bottom 90% of young Americans. And they can’t lower housing prices because it’ll make rich people less rich. And they can’t increase wages because it’ll make rich people less rich.
So they define the American Dream downwards.
A young adult today can buy an RV for the same price, adjusted for inflation, as their parents spent to buy a house. And that’ll be the new aspiration. Buy an RV, rent a parking space, and start a family.
And the conservatives wonder why people aren’t having kids these days.
They can’t make houses cheaper, after all. That would hurt the bankers and mortgage companies and property investors.
Purchasing an actual house is out of reach for the bottom 90% of young Americans. And they can’t lower housing prices because it’ll make rich people less rich. And they can’t increase wages because it’ll make rich people less rich.
So they define the American Dream downwards.
A young adult today can buy an RV for the same price, adjusted for inflation, as their parents spent to buy a house. And that’ll be the new aspiration. Buy an RV, rent a parking space, and start a family.
And the conservatives wonder why people aren’t having kids these days.