{"id":78036,"date":"2024-06-03T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=78036"},"modified":"2024-05-31T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:49:00","slug":"gen-z-housing-affordability-important-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/gen-z-housing-affordability-important-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Affordability Is Gen Z&#8217;s Top Voting Issue, Outweighing Abortion Rights and the Economy: Redfin Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millennials, Gen Xers and baby boomers all ranked the overall economy as the top issue in their presidential pick. Preserving democracy was more likely than housing affordability to weigh on Gen Xers\u2019 and boomers\u2019 minds. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than nine in 10 (91%) adult Gen Zers say housing affordability is important when considering who they will vote for in the upcoming presidential election, making it the top issue for that generation. Gen Zers were more likely to rate housing affordability as an important factor in their vote than any other issue they were asked about, including the economy, abortion and gun rights, preserving democracy and foreign wars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is according to a Redfin-commissioned survey of roughly 3,000 U.S. homeowners and renters conducted by Qualtrics in February 2024. Please see a more detailed methodology at the end of this report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millennials, Gen Xers and baby boomers were all more likely to say the strength of the overall economy was an important factor in their presidential pick than any other issue. Gen Xers and baby boomers also ranked preserving democracy above housing affordability. Still, at least 80% of every generation said housing affordability is an important factor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All generations were more likely to rate housing affordability as an important factor in their presidential vote than abortion rights or student debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-78037 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/big-table-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/big-table-.png 554w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/big-table--200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Housing affordability is important to American voters because homebuying\u2013and renting, for that matter\u2013have become increasingly costly over the last several years. Home prices have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/redfin-home-price-index-april-2024\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more than 40% since before the pandemic homebuying frenzy, and elevated mortgage rates are exacerbating high prices: 2023 was the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/share-of-homes-affordable-new-2023\/#:~:text=Just%2015.5%25%20of%20homes%20for,most%20populous%20U.S.%20metropolitan%20areas.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">least affordable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> year on record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue is particularly important to young Americans because they are aging into homeownership; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/homeownership-rate-by-generation-2023\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only 26%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of adult Gen Zers already own a home. It\u2019s more difficult for first-time buyers to break into today\u2019s expensive market because they don\u2019t have equity from a previous home sale to put toward their down payment and mortgage payments. Renting a home has also become much more expensive over the last several years, largely because demand for rentals surged during the pandemic: The median U.S. asking rent has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/redfin-rental-report-april-2024\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increased<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more than 20% since 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHousing affordability is a cornerstone of this year\u2019s presidential election because even though the economy is fairly strong, unemployment is low and wages are rising, buying a home feels impossible for many Americans,\u201d said Redfin Senior Economist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/author\/elijah-delacampa\/\">Elijah de la Campa<\/a>. \u201cThis is particularly the case for young people, who have seen the\u00a0 cost of starter homes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/starter-home-affordability-february-2024\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increase<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> twice as fast as incomes. Young people care about other political issues, like immigration and abortion rights, but they\u2019re more likely to cite housing affordability as a factor in their vote because it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/03\/economy\/young-americans-giving-up-owning-a-home\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">directly impacts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the roof over their head, their lifestyle and their ability to build wealth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Biden has released a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/03\/07\/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-plan-to-lower-housing-costs-for-working-families\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to lower housing costs. Donald Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-donald-trump-plans-fix-housing-market-1811663\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he has a strategy to combat the expensive housing market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Methodology<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is according to a Redfin-commissioned survey of roughly 3,000 U.S. homeowners and renters conducted by Qualtrics in February 2024. There were 180 responses from Gen Zers, 844 from millennials, 843 from Gen Xers and 1,128 from baby boomers and older generations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relevant prompt was: \u201cPlease indicate how important each of the following issues are when considering how you will vote in the next presidential election.\u201d Respondents could choose \u201cvery important,\u201d \u201csomewhat important,\u201d \u201cnot very important\u201d or \u201cnot important at all,\u201d and they could select all issues that apply. For this report, we group together the \u201cvery important and \u201csomewhat important\u201d responses, and refer to those as \u201cimportant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adult <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gen Zers are 18-27 years old, millennials are 28-43, Gen Xers are 44-59 and baby boomers are 60-78.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials, Gen Xers and baby boomers all ranked the overall economy as the top issue in their presidential pick. Preserving democracy was more likely than housing affordability to weigh on Gen Xers\u2019 and boomers\u2019 minds. 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