‘Oh please, get a job’: Joy Behar slams young Americans for feeling left behind — but as a new study shows, it may be baby boomers who are stopping them from getting ahead

“Oh please, get a job,” Behar, an 81-year-old actress and comedian interjected on the daytime talk show. "There’s a million job openings in this country."

She’s not the only baby boomer who’s famously criticized younger Americans for being unable to move out of their parents’ basements (read: Dave Ramsey) and climb the property ladder.

However, a recent report from Redfin reveals that boomers are the generation least likely to be able to afford their current homes if they bought them today.

Nearly half (45%) of the group say they couldn’t purchase a similar home in their neighborhood now, compared to 39% of Gen Xers and 24% of Gen Zers and millennials — and experts say this pervasive issue is only contributing to the housing woes of younger Americans today.

Baby boomers aren’t budging

Many baby boomers are stuck in place, locked into their larger homes, unwilling or unable to downsize to smaller accommodations that might be more suitable.

“That dynamic contributes to the shortage of homes for sale,” writes Redfin data journalist Dana Anderson in the report, noting empty-nester boomers own twice as many large homes across the country as millennials with kids, “largely because older Americans, with no financial incentive to sell, are hanging onto their homes.”

The reality is that median prices of existing single-family homes have skyrocketed over 10-fold since the early 1970s, when the oldest boomers were buying their first homes, reports The Wall Street Journal.

And thanks to rising home values, many of them are in a much better place, financially, compared to young Americans today — who are trying to enter the housing market at a time of high mortgage rates and home prices.

“Many older Americans benefited from an abundance of newly built homes and favorable economic conditions during their prime money-making years,” write Anderson and Redfin author Sheharyar Bokhari in a separate report. “Many baby boomers were at the height of their careers during the 1990s economic boom, allowing them to build wealth and buy big homes.”

Today, the generation holds about half of the country’s wealth, with most of it tied up in real estate.