Seriously what's the point of even having a national identity if you are a renter in your own country.
Housing is the biggest crisis that no government truly wants to fix
You often see that argument being made that the youngest generation has lost hope and has so many mental issues because the "system is broken".
Yet, as you rightly point out, kids don't really realize those concerns. I mean, being able to afford a house or a car was the least of my concerns at that age, and I can't really see why this would have changed for the next generation.
So I'm genuinely intrigued: what could be the underlying cause(s) of that feeling of hopelessness?
As another commenter pointed out, the teenagers are already well aware of the world around them. But for the kids, the point stands.
Maybe it has something to do with the other adults' attitude? When I was a child, my parents were poor and I was a rather bright one. I distinctly remember adults around me viewing education as a ticket to a better life. Nowadays, it feels like this is not really the case. Maybe the children don't understand what is going on, but maybe they do understand what adults/teenagers around them feel?
(And by the time we're 45, the bar will have moved up to 50+)
My house cost like 20% of almost anyone else in my area by just doing it myself without any code inspections. All it takes is courage to bypass the conventional system, society was wrong and I won by calling bullshit.
Of course people still do it. But the threat that you might be forced to tear down your home at any moment just to be homeless really is not that much fun.
Edit: Oh, and a parked trailer is a building as well, of course. Just that tearing it down is a lot easier
Where I live, code requires that if you build a fence, it should not block the view and should be lower than 1.6/1.7m. So you cannot build a full fence for privacy or to block road noises.
Some neighbours wanted to build such a fence, because the road passing by is busy and noisy. So they build a "fake" pre-fence to code, next to the road, and 2 meters back, the first allowed distance for any construction, they build a "natural" 2.5 meter high "fence" of stacked wood to dampen the noise and have some privacy.
The town hall is furious, but cannot do anything, because nothing prevents you from stacking wood 2.5 meters high. The winters are harsh in the mountains, after all. And even the locals a few villages down the valley were impressed and laughing about it.
Regulations came into effect as they are now due to a very long line of horrible disasters & regulatory reactions to them.
May I ask you where this is, without getting into specifics of course. Western Europe?
Did you build with wood?
If all you have is trees though you can build a permanent treated wood foundation.