No Spouse, No House: Marriage Decline and Homeownership Among Young Adults

If you’ve been on social media in the past 10 years, you’ve surely seen it: The lamentation that it’s impossible for young adults in America today to buy a home. This is a complaint as likely to be offered by populist conservatives as by Taylor Lorenz-style progressives. The new right’s emphasis on family formation and declining fertility rates, in combination with the populist skew of young conservatives, has boosted the issue of housing costs in center-right circles. However, there’s just one problem with blaming unaffordable homeownership for declining family formation: it gets the causality backwards.

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