![](https://i0.wp.com/micawberprinciple.com/wp-content/uploads/House-1.jpg?fit=560%2C374&ssl=1)
With housing prices rising and student loans at an all-time high young adults are finding it increasingly difficult to purchase their first homes. Paradoxically, many of them could afford the monthly payments on a home – in fact they are paying as much for rent as a monthly mortgage payment would cost – but they…