This influx was largely 18- to 25-year-old Gen Zers, but they've joined a large population of millennials who were already living at home. As of April, a record-breaking 32 million American adults were living with their parents or grandparents.

This seems to be playing out much differently than during the last recession, when home prices plummeted but rents did not.

Part of the imbalance between home buying and selling, Tucker says, may be that sellers tend to be older — and with a pandemic still raging, many may not be eager to move and risk their health. Meanwhile, a large number of them are taking advantage of COVID-19 mortgage forbearance policies, which free them to not pay their mortgage during the crisis. "Still over 7% of active mortgages are in forbearance," Tucker says.

Many Americans — especially 30-somethings who remain employed — are ditching their tiny rental apartments in hip districts of expensive cities and moving to buy houses in more affordable cities or the burbs for a life of shopping at Home Depot and spending their Friday nights eating mozzarella sticks at Applebee's.

Truckee is part of a trend that realtors and journalists are calling "Zoom towns," places that are booming as remote work takes off.

Truckee, Calif., is a mountain town just northwest of Lake Tahoe. It is sort of an outdoorsy paradise. It has great skiing, mountain biking and hiking opportunities, as well as a river and lakes. It also has some great restaurants and a budding art scene. And if you're a Bay Area resident in the market for a house, it has another thing going for it: It has a median home price that's roughly half that of San Francisco, about three hours away.

Justice 173173can contribute to the alleviation of the ills of which we are all aware but for which a cure is hard to find

The increase in the gross national product (GNP) has become the chief end of human life, in comparison with which every other cultural purpose is secondary.

In our time the defense of liberalism and the pursuit of justice are distinctlyat odds. This conflict is one of the contributing factors to the disintegration of our society

A single right is never absolute. Rights must be correlative to duties; the realization of rights is the avenue for the expression of responsibilities. The rights of one person may not violate the rights of others. And the pursuit of one right should not occur at the expense of other rights. There must be a kind of simultaneity in the realization of human rights.

On this basis we can say that a Christian conception of society is a conception of an open society, in which men and women have the right to reach out to God or to what they consider to be their final transcendent “value” to which they desire to render allegiance.

When I say that rights are founded in the fact that God createdhuman beings, I am in effect emphasizing that people are the image of God. Human rights are not founded in an inherent dignity of human personality, as humanism claims. Human rights are founded in a dignity that comes from the Creator.

A Christian conception of human rights finds its foundation in the created character of human life and in Christ's work of redemption. The redemptive work of Christ implies the restoration of human beings to their creaturely status as servants of God. Outside of Christ's redemptive work people have no rights. Because of Christ's redemptive work we are called to fight for the rights of all people, whether they are Christians or not.

Further, the relations among members within a non-state social structure are to be regulated by private law. Concretely, the relations among members of a family, of a local church congregation, of an industrial work community, of a university, are to be regulated by private communal law.

In view of this, I provisionally describe society as the horizontal complex of all of these human relationships inter-connecting with each in a particular culture. The many cross-currents between human beings and social structures in a modern metropolis is a good example of what I mean by society. A metropolis is a mini-society

The use of the word “society” is somewhat dangerous, because it can be defined in a variety of ways. A measure of clarity is essential. Some thinkers define society as the sum total of human individuals living within a particular territory, along with the social groups that such individuals have voluntarily formed to pursue certain goals. This is the conception of individualism that holds that the individual person is that basic social entity. The opposite conception is universalism, which holds that society itself is the primary and basic and all-embracing unit, of which everything else is but a part.

The fact that the power and authority of the state is subject to the power and authority of Jesus Christ means that the state must establish a social order where love between human beings is given a political shape

In sum, we have said that creatureliness is service. Further, that human creatures are to be servants-of-love, both to God and neighbor. Thirdly, that all specific divine norms ─ like justice and stewardship ─ are to be looked upon as expressions of love. We now see, fourthly, that the expressions of specific norms may well require certain organizations, like the state. Such organizations, fifthly, require a measure of power to achieve their tasks and offices

The notion of popular sovereignty in essence develops into the tyranny of the majority, or the tyranny of an elite that can effectively manipulate the electorate at the ballot box

That good is public justice

Political absolutism, ancient or modern, proceeds from the notion that the citizen exists for the good of the state. Paul argues the exact opposite: the state and its authorities exist for the good of the citizenry

Moreover, authority must be exercised for the welfare of those subject to it. Paul sums the matter up very succinctly: the person in authority is "God's servant for your good" (Rom. 13:3ff)

Authority is office, that is, a channel for realization of divine norms in a social relationship. This means that “there is no authority except from God," who has established the norms that hold for human life.

The, state arises in a society when the interrelationships between tribes and clans and cities within a particular territory require a central administration for the dispensation of justice.

3. The earth could be used but not exploited. There is the notion abroad today that Christianity is responsible for the ecological crisis. Lynn White, for example, has stated that “Christianity...not only established a dualism of man and nature but also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends."2

2. The blessings of the Lord to one person were looked upon as avenues of stewardship to those in need. In the light of what we said about justice in general it comes as no surprise that both in the laws of Moses and later in the books of the prophets the deprived persons weregiven special attention.

Quite concretely this meant that four groups of needy persons are constantly singled out as the special recipients of justice and stewardship: the widows, aliens, the poor, and the orphans

1.To begin with, the Bible rejects the modern notion of private property. When the Psalmist sings, "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof," he means what he says (Ps. 24: I). In effect, the Lord owns the earth; we can only inherit it from Him and use it, subject to certain conditions.

1Developing this idea, we may say that the norm of justice requires a social order in which people can express themselves as God's imagers. Said differently, the norm of justice requires social space for human personality. By personality I mean the human self whose calling lies in love of God and love of neighbor

For this reason the restoration of the human community in terms of the covenant between God and humanity implies the restoration of a just society.

God’s grace is not in conflict with, but and expression of, God’s justice.

Someone has remarked that only a religion whose God is just can make a contribution to social justice, that is, to a "right" relation among people.

God’s kingdom means at least two things. First, it is the rule of the Lord over the entire creation by His Word. The kingdom of God is the Creator's constitutional order for every creature. In the second place, God's kingdom is the creation itself. The quality of life in the creation depends on the rapport between the order of the King and the obedience of His creatures. All creatures are God's servants and are subject to the King's rule.

If an individual has low trust levels towardsothers, then it is more likely that they will anticipate a negative response and thereforewould be reluctant to participate in the discussion. However, as earlier research hasalluded to (e.g. Zamith and Lewis2014), it is questionable whether this understandingis applicable to participation around online news

For example, for journalists and newsorganisations, using “number of shares” as a metric for judging the “success” of an arti-cle may be misleading if a significant proportion of shares are motivated by low trustand surrounded by negative sentiment

which explains why the effect of trust on participation is signifi-cant but small

More specifically, those with low trust in the newsare more likely than those with moderate or high trust to engage in either sharing- orcommenting-type behaviour.

It is, however, appropriate to be cautious about the direction of causality con-cerning low trust in the news media and the preference for non-mainstream newssources

if it is assumedthat news audiences make rational choice

those with low trust in the news mediaare more likely to prefer non-mainstream news sources, and are more likely to engagein online news participation.

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Amore recent study focusing on news commenting in the United States found that theunderlying motivations are diverse, but included expressing an emotion or opinion, tak-ing part in the debate, educating others, fact-checking, and balancing discussions

argued that those who distrust the newsmedia tend to seek additional information from partisan sources, leading to a polarisa-tion of public opinion that can be harmful to society. However, there has been littleempirical research into the impact of trust on news source selection.

The internetprovides a platform where news consumers can find their own information, indepen-dent of institutions or news companies, compiling facts from various sources. This iscomplemented by social media, where users can also distribute news and form a publicdiscourse (Dutton2009)

Therefore, low trustdoes simply equate to distrust. In other words, a high level of trust results in less uncer-tainty or risk associated with the trustee or the trusted information, and a low level oftrust is associated with greater uncertainty.

Matthes’ (2013) study confirmed that low-trust individuals tend not to participate andvoice themselves when confronted with a hostile opinion environment. However, thiswas only in cases when individuals had low levels of general social trust, and may notbe applicable when considering trust in specific institutions. For example, in the contextof political participation, those who have lower levels of trust tend to participateactively in the political discourse (Levi and Stoker2000)

If applied to news, consumers of information can trustthe source if they have both the ability and intention to deliver quality information. Putdifferently, “trust is a psychological state comprising the intention to accept vulnerabil-ity based upon positive expectations of the intentions or behaviour of another”

Although trust in the news has been declining in many countries for some time, theincrease in the amount of news available online has reignited concerns about decliningcredibility and news quality, and the potential harm to democracy that this might cause

Today, the reputation of the news organisa-tion is also considered important in determining the perceived credibility of the news

News informs citizens and enables civic engagement within democratic societies

On top of this, people are also able to maketheir own contributions to news coverage, by uploading media, providing eyewitnessaccounts, and commenting on news websites and social media, thus adding an extradimension to the news as a whole

The increased popularity of interactive online environments has also enabled anew set of news consumption practices, given that they allow people to more easily(and more publicly) share and rate news

This gives news consumers more choice, but alsocreates a more pressing need to filter credible information. News consumers are stillable to go directly to the sources they trust.

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Trust has long been considered an important factor that influences people’s relationship withnews. However, the increase in the volume of information available online, together with theemergence of new tools and services that act as intermediaries and enable interactivity aroundthe news, may have changed this relationship.