{"id":626399,"date":"2026-06-28T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=626399"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:45:00","slug":"young-americans-expect-to-buy-a-home-later-in-life-or-not-at-all-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=626399","title":{"rendered":"Young Americans Expect To Buy A Home Later In Life (Or Not At All)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Young Americans Expect To Buy A Home Later In Life (Or Not At All)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>For decades, homeownership has been a key milestone of adulthood in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, however, the middle-class ideal of homeownership and suburban comfort, once an embodiment of the American Dream, has gotten\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34534\/median-house-price-versus-median-income-in-the-us\/\">out of reach for many families<\/a>, as elevated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1618\/residential-housing-in-the-us\/\">home prices<\/a>, high mortgage rates and a period of stagnant real wages have left many families unable to even consider it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/36355\/homebuying-intentions-among-young-americans\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Felix Richter shows below<\/a>, only 25 percent of non-homeowners expect to buy a house in the next five years, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/708995\/homebuying-intentions-decline-further.aspx\">Gallup<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <strong>the lowest share since the question was first asked in 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/36355\/homebuying-intentions-among-young-americans\/\" title=\"Infographic: Young Americans Expect to Buy a Home Later or Not at All | Statista\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infographic: Young Americans Expect to Buy a Home Later or Not at All | Statista\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/36355.jpeg\" width=\"501\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among those aged 18 to 34, a key group of prospective buyers, intentions have also fallen sharply. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The share expecting to buy in the next five years dropped from 57 percent in 2013\/2015 to 29 percent in 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the same time, the share of non-owners who don\u2019t see themselves buying a home in the foreseeable future has increased from 13 to 30 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rest expects to wait longer before buying a home, either to build up savings for a down payment or in hopes that prices and mortgage rates will come down from their current levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 06\/27\/2026 &#8211; 22:45<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/36355.jpeg\" title=\"Young Americans Expect To Buy A Home Later In Life (Or Not At All)\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Americans Expect To Buy A Home Later In Life (Or Not At All) For decades, homeownership has been a key milestone of adulthood in the United States. In recent years, however, the middle-class ideal of homeownership and suburban comfort, once an embodiment of the American Dream, has gotten\u00a0out of reach for many families, as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=626399\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young Americans Expect To Buy A Home Later In Life (Or Not At All)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/626385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}