The Vanishing American Dream: Why Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes, Families, or Stability

October 1st, 2025

I found this on the Discord channel of a livestreamer I watch out of Los Angeles…

Via: International Man:

The American Dream has become prohibitively expensive, with home affordability at historic lows and the traditional middle-class lifestyle now out of reach for most ordinary people.

But no demographic has taken it more on the chin than young Americans.

You can see it in stark terms in this week’s chart below. Since the postwar era, the share of 30-year-olds in America with both a family and a home has plummeted—from about 52% in 1950 to just 13% in 2025. That’s a staggering 75% decline over 75 years.

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One Response to “The Vanishing American Dream: Why Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes, Families, or Stability”

  1. djc says:
    October 2, 2025 at 6:50 pm

    No doubt the young folk have had their brains fried by screens but I think why the Discord image is so relevant is because so many young people have no hope for the future, and who could blame them for that attitude. If they weren’t be pacified by a screen then they’d be marching in the streets – now, we couldn’t have that could we ?

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