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50% of Americans Can No Longer Afford Rent, IT'S OVER. Private Equity. Half of Americans Risk Homelessness
Last edited Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:26 PM - Edit history (1)
LMA, Large Man Abroad, Dec. 27, 25. (15 mins).
Description: 50% of American families can no longer afford the roof over their heads. - You aren't a citizen anymore - you're just a 'nutrient' on a private equity firm's spreadsheet. 🏚
The 2025 State of the Nations Housing report just dropped, and it confirms what we already feel: the American Dream has been replaced by a "closed loop" of poverty.
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nations-housing-2025
In this video, I'm breaking down how corporate overlords and AI - driven rent hikes have turned shelter into a predator derivative.. Private Equity Parasites: How Blackstone and "investors" bought 33% of single-family homes in 2025..
- More in DESCRIPTION in the Video above.
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**Joint Center for Housing/JCH, Harvard Univ. The State of the Nations Housing 2025.
- The US housing market is shrouded in uncertainty. High home prices and interest rates have pushed sales to their lowest level in 30 years; insurance premiums and property taxes are on the rise; high rents have left record numbers with cost burdens; and devastating wildfires have highlighted the growing dangers of climate disasters. And the increasing likelihood of an economic downturn threatens to deepen these challenges.
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nations-housing-2025
National Association of Home Builders, NAHB
- "Harvard Report Shows the Housing Affordability Crisis Worsening," 2025
The U.S. housing market continues to face uncertainty and record-high unaffordability as home prices and interest rates push sales to their lowest level in 30 years, according to The State of the Nation’s Housing 2025, a report published by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS).
The report highlights the record-high number of cost-burdened renters (those spending more than 30% of their income on housing and utilities), the staggering increase in cost-burdened home owners, and the pricing out of first-time home buyers. While rents are increasing nationwide, rental demand still remains strong.
With fewer households able to afford to buy a home, the renting population grew by 848,000 in 2024, absorbing the new 608,000 multifamily units completed last year — the most developed in nearly four decades. Further exacerbating the issue, the number of higher-rent units has increased while the number of lower-rent units has decreased.
The number of cost-burdened home owners also rose by 646,000 to 20.3 million, representing 24% of home-owning households. Cost burdens can partially be attributed to insurance premium and property tax increases. The rise of climate-related disasters has caused private insurers to raise premiums, reduce coverage, and in some cases, pull out of markets completely. But soaring home prices are still the main driver of the housing affordability crisis. Over the last six years, home prices have risen 60%...
https://www.nahb.org/blog/2025/06/harvard-report-shows-the-housing-affordability-crisis-worsening
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Although two different residents moved to live with their adult children (or near to them)...
