I do have a LOT of sympathy for the younger folks
Thank you.
- it is very hard for them to buy now and in many cases impossible.
Impossible. There's a hideous stucco box-of-a-house across the street from my apartment, 1200 sq. ft tops, right next to a car-parts store that unloads transmissions from idling semis at 11pm. Hardly a yard to speak of. Sure, it's "the beaches", but $584,000?!!
How do we fix that? Reduce demand (maybe possible on the margin if we are willing to send our resident Mexican citizens home)
For starters...
Our education system would seem fine if it was being compared to Mexico's instead of to English-speaking states, and home prices would be more reasonable if you didn't have 4 families getting together to pay a ludicrous 400 grand for a sardine can in "Gangsterville".
At any rate, we rent. And homeschool.
More power to you. I wish folks like you would stay here to improve the politics of the PRK, but the plain facts are that at some point in your life you MUST buy a home - even if it means moving out of state to do so.