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I mean.. I couldn’t afford my own apartment until I was in my late 20s and all the places I lived in until my 30s were shitholes.
Okay, how old are you now? Give me a ball park?
Also, does everyone have to have a shitty time because you did?
Your experiences don’t invalidate other people’s.
I don't think they were trying to invalidate the experience of Gen Z. Just expanding by saying this has been an issue for decades, this isn't 'news' to anyone under 40.
You're not complaining that things haven't gotten better; your complaining that renting single is something other generations had which has been taken away. It isn't.
No generation has had a majority able to rent alone until they enter mid career. I'm middle-class, American Gen-X, and I had the same experience op did.
Housing has gotten worse. I wasn't able to afford a house until I was in my 30's, and had a wife with her own income. The boomers were an exeption, not the rule.
I do feel as if housing is even less affordable than for Gen X, and is getting steadily worse, but renting has always been this way.
Literally putting words in my mouth.
I'm in my late 30s. Regardless that's a bit of a leap on your part to suggest that sharing my experience is invalidating others. It might be somewhat invalidating the narrative the article is putting forward however, but that's probably warranted.
Point is that this has been a problem for a long time. Is it worse now? Sure, rents are even more insane than when I was growing up and pay still sucks. But needing room mates was a thing for me and the majority of my friends growing up.
This isn't a new problem like the article seems to suggest. Also historically there's a greater precedent for people living in shared spaces than not, if we're being fair.