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.

  • wowwoweowza
    522·
    11 months ago

    Poor tax laws on the richest 1% killed the American Dream.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
      31·
      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
        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.