Demographics: “Boomers” are the cause of high priced homes
Economy: Housing problems are all due to "boomers" because they are not moving to smaller homes. Reality: The US has not built smaller homes for 50 years.
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Economy: Housing problems are all due to "boomers" because they are not moving to smaller homes. Reality: The US has not built smaller homes for 50 years.
If only someone would have mentioned what would happen with a shrinking fertility rate ...
It's been dropping in the US for 200+ years, and globally for at least 60 years.
Down by 20% over 13 years.
The media has a meme that home prices are high because "Boomers" are not downsizing. Except those 65+ are already in smaller homes - duh!
Climate anxiety causing end of humanity is leading the young to not having kids, leading to the end of humanity …
"Blue Zones" and the Blue Zone diet appear to have been based on bad record keeping and pension fraud leading to false claims of many centenarians.
Apparently those making a lot are financially illiterate, as their "wants" grow with their salary.
The 10-bed facility has an average daily census of less than 2. CA has a fertility rate of 1.52 - there just aren't many kids anymore.
Rates are currently similar to or even a bit lower than they were for a quarter century recently.
This is down from 75% in 2010. The public has lost confidence in college programs.
That's losing 5 to 10 schools worth of students.
We know that 15.8% of the US population was foreign born in early 2025. But that population is not distributed equally in the country.
The "tiny home" market is so tiny that it pretty much does not even exist.
The H-1B program was created after a flawed NSF model (since discredited) projected a shortage of STEM workers.