Anyone born after 1985 does not have access to what their parents had: the traditional tools of social mobility – education, housing, steady income.
Nguyen now has a house, a steady job, and a wife and two young children who are American citizens.
If home buyers try to keep their monthly house payment steady, an analysis by Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, suggests, prices could fall by more than 20percentt in higher-priced markets like New York City.
The walk from Chaplin's studio to Hollywood Boulevard is a blur of tattoo parlours, speeding cars and sprawling apartment buildings thrown up to house the steady stream of people who arrive with dreams of acting or directing in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.
Stable housing, sobriety, steady employment, completion of treatment, therapy and parenting classes are frequent requirements.
It now calls itself Harlem's "hottest, hippest hotel/hostel," and has housed a steady stream of mostly European tourists since February 2000.
All those twentysomething women across Britain with their massive houses, their steady jobs that allow for maternity leave and flexible hours for childcare and all those millions of cheap nurseries on their doorstep without any waiting lists at all.
As long as we don't begin to see optimism waning, we can expect that the very mild improvement in sentiment will help keep the housing market steady in early 2017.
The city's punky demeanor first manifested itself in groups like the Skunks and the Huns musical jive-talkers emboldened by cheap housing and steady sunshine and the idea of starting a music festival was sort of a no-brainer, probably spawned at Twin Falls from minds hard-charging on LSD.
Housing prices remain steady as additional housing is built in the inner suburbs.
