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Why Young People Have Become the “Never-Home” Generation

By Cole Mason

Dec 08, 2025
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There’s a strange, almost invisible trade-off that has unfolded over the past twenty years, and most young adults never realized they were participating in it. Many people talk about the housing crisis: too little supply, high demand, zoning that borders on impossible, and prices in places like Santa Barbara that feel more like fantasy than economics. A…

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