Parents in Tears — Children Who Can't Afford to Stay in Lehi

Mark describes a recurring experience in his office: parents sitting across from him, crying, because their children cannot afford to buy a home in Lehi. The city they grew up in, the city their parents live in, the city where the connections and memories and belonging are — is financially out of reach. Mark connects this to the broader housing debate honestly: he acknowledges that people who bought in Lehi years ago did well partly because Lehi became desirable, not purely through their own effort. And he challenges those same people to consider whether 'stopping growth' is a fair position when their own success was built on the city's openness to them. For him, homeownership is the hedge against inflation, the path to equity, the foundation of generational financial stability — and it is becoming inaccessible.