I was a kid in the 50s.  I changed schools twelve (12) times in the 6th grade alone, moving every time.  My dad worked construction.  That's just the way it was.  The worst place I ever lived in was a GP medium tent with a wooden floor in Dexter, Oregon.  

I joined the military out of high school,  got the GI bill, worked my way through law school and have purchased nine houses in my lifetime.   I never drew a dime of unemployment, although I did work two different minimum wage jobs a number of years ago. 

The housing market is unaffordable.  A person getting a 'starter' job out of college cannot 'afford' a 'starter' home today, especially if he took five years to get through at the exorbitant tuition rates in effect at the U of O.

When I graduated from law school, my beginning annual salary was about $14, 500 and my 'starter' home out on Danebo cost $18,000.  Those numbers don't match today's Eugene market for either income or house prices.   Don't take my money in taxes as a "fix"