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The Silver Tsunami: Which Areas Will Be Flooded with Homes Once Boomers Leave? (zillow.com)
5 points by dpflan on Nov 24, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> Over the next 20 years, more than a quarter (27.4 percent) of the nation’s currently owner-occupied homes are likely to hit the market

That doesn’t sound like all that much. I mean, roughly a quarter of the population dies in any given twenty year period anyway given a 80 year life expectancy, and houses change hands for many other reasons.


Here is the opposite view: housing shortage:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/heres-where-the-housing-shor...


the standards homes have been built to have changed a lot, many of the newer of these homes are going to be difficult to "upgrade" or "rehabilitate" into salability. It's worse than the mobile homes used for old people storage in Florida in the 80s, at least those could be pulled off the lot and replaced as roll in units. Today's McMansions are going to have to be broken up and cleaned off the site first.




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