As more millennials move up the earnings ladder, get married and start families, housing is increasingly taking center stage.
Though millennials have a higher number of college graduates than Gen Xers and Baby Boomers, they’re less likely to own a home, according to the Urban Institute. In fact, their rate of homeownership was about 8 percentage points lower than Gen Xers and baby boomers at the same age.
Among the barriers to homeownership, according to the study: delayed marriage, student debt, and choosing to live in high-cost cities. What puzzles analysts is that in many of these cities the cost of renting versus buying a home is about the same.
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