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Living board/rent free at home until you are 30 is privilege. I know a couple who bought into out Sydney a decade ago, and she told me they just saved hard and ate packed lunches. They were MARRIED for two years, both working full time and lived at home with respective parents.
Another guy, who I know, who now owns his second house (he paid off and sold the first to upgrade), had both help with the deposit, lived with his parents board free while studying and then working full-time for 7 years (single).
The landlord who rented us our last house bought it as an investment property after an inheritance, but she was flat broke as a result, and we ended up waiting 6-12 months for repairs (an entire summer without an air-conditioner was the worst of that place).
I was kicked out of home at 13. I was fortunate to live with my grandparents, and pay a flat board, but I only ever worked casualised, and I only had $11,000 in my super when I hit 25. But sure, tell me more how I should have bought a house at 22.
If Mum hadn't gotten knocked up at 17 to a middle class boy who was an apprentice painter, (his Dad was an electrician & taxi driver, his Mum was a teacher) who had taken me in when I was 13, I would probably be dead by now. Definitely would have been homeless. Still privileged.
Assuming my Dad doesn't spend it all on a hot 18 year old, or the giant boat he bought, I'll probably get an inheritance in 20 years time that could get us into the property market, which I'd only do, solely so our kids could always have a home to return to when they needed.
Privilege is undeniable, most of us have it to some extent - some a lot more than others. Don't bristle when you hear the word. My childhood was a flaming dumpster of abuse, but it was never once made worse by my whiteness, so, privilege.
