Foreword: I wish solving housing affordability fit into a 30-second TikTok or Instagram reel. It just doesn’t. But if we’re serious about fixing homeownership in America, we need to move past AI-generated graphics, random unresearched ideas, and face some hard truths. My mother and father taught me to be deferential. As the last child of lower middle-class, dual income parents, entitlement was as foreign to our household as a new car. We were not taught to question authority, but rather to obey it.