How do you deal with the current housing crisis?

I'm starting to notice that it influences my mental health more and more. I'm not even actively looking for a house and I'm going for a Masters degree soon, but I just know that even with a degree like that it's likely impossible to move out of my parents home. Problem is that I'm 26 now and I should move out because I don't want to stay at my parents house until I'm 30 or something. I can maybe get lucky and rent something, but then I'm at the mercy of the high rents in the free sector. I also don't want a huge chunk of my income to just go to renting. If so, then what were the degrees even for? To still live from paycheck to paycheck but at least I have a house? Gee thanks.

I was hoping that the crisis would become less bad, but it's becoming worse and worse with the years.