young? I understand the frustration but nearly everyone here at one point or another was in the same boat of trying to afford a home on a meager living with limited life experience. The struggle is real when you are a young family and I can only say when you keep at it, it starts to come together more over time.

What you are talking about is putting heavy controls on economics in these areas. Plenty of other problems will stem from such controls. To think the word will destabilize because normal citizens can purchase properties as investments is very short sighted. Every generation thinks the circumstances of the world are unique to them. For example, people paying $200,000 on a home in San Francisco in the 80s felt like they were barely making it. How would they climb out of that debt? Now selling those homes for 2-3 million and moving to a place like Idaho or Utah makes it look like the best decision they ever made.

If you live in Utah or somewhere similar just recognize that this has happened everywhere the local economy is booming. There will always be too little housing in such places and investors will always see an opportunity to make more money in gold rush-like circumstances. The environment will correct eventually, there are other options on places to live, working long hours and saving hard is a universal truth for most people to get to where they want to be. I didn't buy a house until I was in my 30s so I would recommend throwing out the timeline of expectation.