Move to a city that once had streetcars. Those neighborhoods are becoming walkable/bikeable 15-minute cities where on can easily get by without owning a car. Cars are a waste of money, you could be saving for a house.
Wait 4 years and hope the orange man (I) leaves the Whitehouse: (ii) hasn't decimated the economy: (iii) some semblance of stability returns to the economy: (iv) there are jobs to enable mortgage payments
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Locate an empty house : move in . Start paying bills
Be there for a few years paying taxes and shit .
Then claim eminent domain.
There will never be enough affordable housing because there is no affordability in the United States .
Grab’em by the door knockers !