Exploring the history, impacts, and societal attitudes towards multi-generational households, including the influence of economic factors like recessions and housing crises. The chapter also discusses the potential long-term effects of this trend on addressing issues such as student debt and caregiving.
Living with your parents is so hot right now, with more adults doing it now than at any other time in the modern era. First, we hang out with a member of Gen Z who’s moved back in with the folks. Then, a closer look at the trend with Donna Butts of Generations United.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.
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