I’m not here to infantalize Gen Z by saying they’re immature or that they prefer to live at home playing video games in their parent’s basements — that’s more of a Millennial thing — but the number of more-or-less grownups in their age range who still live with their parents hasn’t been this high since the Great Depression.

And that’s not good for anyone.

This is an existential crisis for Zoomers and even young Millennials, and yet I see almost zero elected officials talking about it.

They don’t even acknowledge this crisis exists except in passing as an insult: “We’re gonna stick it to the 29 year old living in his mother’s… https://t.co/CPBYaEgU8e

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— Christian Heiens (@ChristianHeiens) August 11, 2025

According to data collected by Morgan Stanley, roughly 48 percent of Gen Zers still live at home. This percentage has been steadily climbing since the 2000s and shows no sign of reversing course. You can point fingers for the cause in just about any direction — housing costs, the price of education, the lack of entry level jobs, there is no wrong answer — but what makes this truly terrible is that the last time the numbers were this high, people had to sell their children for food.

You know what? Let’s not give Boomers any ideas. Knowing them, if they can sell their video-game-playing, goon-addicted kids for a couple months’ worth of groceries, they will.