https://archive.is/2023.04.17-212925/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/millennial-generation-financial-issues-income-homeowners/673485/
Incomes and wealth are not just objective numbers—there is a large element of perception involved in whether someone thinks they are doing well.
You are not poor, you just think you are.
I know a few people that have bought houses recently, but they generally make six figure incomes or close to it, one has a Ph.D, another is a well paid nurse and is married to a MD. The only regular person I know who recently bought a house got a settlement check from a work accident that left him with some undetermined level of brain damage and the house is like a hour's drive from most stores.