Orlando realtor Freddie Smith discusses how owning a home and living a typical middle class life has become increasingly unattainable for most millennials and older Gen Z.

TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    32·
    11 months ago

    Capitalism did that too. Capitalism is in a constant state of decline with short upward bursts of innovation that too will decline. Enshittification infects all.

    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml
      2·
      11 months ago

      My wife and I manage it because we both work.

      I didn’t intend on marriage as a way to own a home but I couldn’t do it without my partner.