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Millennials Finally Moving Out Of Parents’ Basements

Ashe Schow

For the better part of a decade, we have been reading news stories about how the millennial generation is struggling to leave their parents’ homes.

Constant surveys show large percentages of the age group — which is never fully defined — still living at home well into adulthood. For example, in May of this year, one survey found nearly 23% of millennials were still living in their parents’ home, up from 13.5% in 2005. That survey was from the real estate database company Zillow, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data between 2005 and 2016.

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