A house is an expense. Either you can afford it or you can't. Owning a home changed from being a standard of living to being a luxury.

This is caused by our money system being abused by politics, and a completely failed experiment in "free trade" which turned out to only benefit the most wealthy. Fiat and globalism destroyed jobs and the middle class. Globalism, advocated by corporations, under "free-trade" (we had no tariffs, while everyone else had tariffs against us) simultaneously created behemoths in China and India - natural adversaries who we treated as allies but our loyalty was never and never will be reciprocal.

All the while education and technical worker visas, created at the same time a vacuuming up of a native-born scientific and engineering jobs and its associated nativist influence, was advocated by Wallstreet, large corporations and politicians on both sides being pre-owned by these treacherous business interests, conspired to sell our country out from under our generation.