Crushing Reasons Why Gen Z Can’t Afford to Start Their Families
- perhaps because their average age is 21 with a range of 13-28 in 2025?
- 55% live at home because … they are young?
- 35% rent
- And the remainder have actually bought a place
- The average age of first-time home buyers over several decades is about 28-30. The very oldest members of Gen Z just turned 28. Duh
- The above story is bylined by Angeles Acosta, but the page on the website has an email address implying a name of Yesira Vasquez, but no writer of that name appears in an online search and this writer wrote 16 articles on the day this was checked, some just minutes apart! Can you say, “AI slop content mill crap?”
Gen Z Can’t Afford To Move Out, And An Economist Says That’s Bad For Everyone | YourTango
- “Shah said that 1.5 million more young people live with their parents now than they did 10 years ago” – “Young people” refers to people age 18-34. In 2015 this age group had 72 million people. In 2025, that age group is estimated as 75-76 million people. Of those, about 24 million “lived with parents” in 2015, and about 25.5 million lived with parent in 2025.
- When adjusted for the population increase, the percentage is almost identical (33.3% versus 33.5% in 2025) and statistically insignificant. “Shah” is Rohan Shaw, a professor of economics – who lacks some critical thinking skills.
- The author is a real person Mary-Faith Martinez, who has a BA in English. She has not been trained to think in terms of numbers so missed the errors from the expert’ish sources.
