People often suffer from tunnel vision.
If you have ever taken a road trip ANYWHERE or flown a plane ANYWHERE, you would know that there is land EVERYWHERE. Expand your search area.
Young people often make the mistake of looking at older people and assuming they always had what they have now. When the truth is, I started out living in a 700-square-foot apartment, with no furniture. I remember breaking down and buying my first two chair (so I would have somewhere to sit.)
This isn’t a difference of stance on the issue of owning vs. renting. The matter is that people who AGREE with the merit of ownership are being blocked out of a scalper’s market.