I grew up in a 2 bedroom apartment as a family of 5 in the 80s because my father, a PhD, couldn’t afford a home. They managed to buy their first home in 1993 at a 12% interest rate. It was still better than the country we immigrated from where there weren’t homes even available to buy unless you were a senator or some shit. Believe it or not you couldn’t buy a 5,000 sq foot mansion on minimum wage in 1987. The current housing market is awful, yes. It’s very unique right now due to the lower interest rates that were around just 3 years ago so people are locked into their mortgages that would otherwise sell and the inventory is extremely low. This is similar to what happened in the housing market in the 80s, actually. It will turn around, all this shit is cyclical. In the meantime enjoy your debt free single life, where you can eat 5 steaks a week in your air conditioned/heated place, with no fear of war, an attacking bear, having to build shelter like a pioneer in the 1700s, or dying of a bacterial infection or typhoid fever. Hell, feel free to go on an app and get sex from a stranger while you’re at it. Just have some perspective that your life is easier than 99.9% of humanity before it.