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Empty-nest baby boomers won't give up their large homes — and it's hurting millennials with kids
Business Insider ^ | Jan 23, 2024 | Eliza Relman,Jennifer Sor

Posted on 01/23/2024 5:03:10 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Baby boomers now own twice as many large homes as millennials with kids, Redfin reported.

Boomers don't have much financial incentive to downsize as millennials struggle to buy.

Land-use, tax, and other policies need to change, and many more homes need to be built, experts say.

Baby boomers whose kids don't live with them anymore are clinging to their large homes, making things worse for millennial families looking to settle down, according to a new Redfin analysis.

Empty-nest boomers now own 28% of homes in the US with three or more bedrooms — double the 14% that millennials with kids own, according to Redfin's analysis of 2022 Census data. There's no city in the country where millennial families own a larger share of big homes than boomers do. It's just more evidence of the massive advantage boomers have over millennials in the housing market, as prices have soared, mortgage rates remain high, and a shortage of homes persists.

Many boomers bought their large homes decades ago when they were much more affordable, even trading up for bigger houses later, said Jenny Schuetz, a housing policy expert at the Brookings Institution.

More than half of boomer homeowners don't have a mortgage.....

"They have no financial incentive to move," Schuetz said. "They're consuming a lot more house than they really need, but it doesn't cost them very much.".....

Staying in a large home as an aging empty nester isn't just a misallocation of the housing supply,

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: drzhivago; families; familyhomes; homes; housing
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“msn.com”

Double Bag Barf Alert


41 posted on 01/23/2024 5:37:59 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Soul of the South; Flavious_Maximus

A search found that Ms Schuetz lives in the Wash DC Baltimore area, was a Google “scholar” and did some degree work at UNLV.

Want to see the results of a distorted housing market?

Try Washington DC. If one doesn’t work for the federal government or is a lobbyist, then the entire concept of “affordable housing” does not exist.

So why is Ms Jenny comparing only urban areas on the East Coast with anywhere else?

And why doesn’t she give up her parents home - say to some of those DC ferals that pop up on the news - and lead by example?


42 posted on 01/23/2024 5:40:13 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: imabadboy99

It wasn’t boomers who changed the immigration laws in 1965 to fulfill JFK’s replacement population dream, it wasn’t even the ‘silent generation’ who did that.


43 posted on 01/23/2024 5:40:28 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

“What a weird way of thinking.”

It’s a commie way of thinking.


44 posted on 01/23/2024 5:42:45 AM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

FTA: “ Staying in a large home as an aging empty nester isn’t just a misallocation of the housing supply, it’s often a challenge for seniors.”

This line chafes me. Who’s doing the allocating?

Mrs Con and I have built 3 two story houses. The master is always on the bottom floor. That is no challenge. A challenge would by accommodating the kids and grandkids when they visit in a one bedroom house.

Jennifer and Eliza can buzz off. I’m already paying for their worthless J School student loan.

EC


45 posted on 01/23/2024 5:43:52 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Schuetz said. “They’re consuming a lot more house than they really need...”

Such a Communist thing to say...

Screw you! I bought this house. I paid for this house. It’s mine. I’ll keep it as long as I wish.


46 posted on 01/23/2024 5:45:43 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
They said this same crap back in the 60/70’s. They also wanted old people to retire so youngsters could get a job.

It's a divide and conquer strategy pitting the young against the old.

Pravda would be proud.

47 posted on 01/23/2024 5:45:45 AM PST by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: plain talk

“”””Misallocation of the housing supply? Whaha””””

Lol, well said with few words.


48 posted on 01/23/2024 5:46:40 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“”””Baby boomers now own twice as many large homes as millennials with kids, Redfin reported. Boomers don’t have much financial incentive to downsize as millennials struggle . Baby boomers whose kids don’t live with them anymore are clinging to their large homes,””””


Let me join the slap down of the ‘entitled’ snowflakes at Business Insider who wrote this piece.

So according to BI’s theory, we elders should sell our big house and move to ‘one room’ in an Assisted Living Facility where we can be subject to elder abuse by ‘entitled snowflakes’.


49 posted on 01/23/2024 5:47:19 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕I worked all my damned life - sometimes 3 jobs at once for my home. Let THEM do the same.


50 posted on 01/23/2024 5:47:23 AM PST by ZULU (DUMP RONA ROMNEY MCDANIELS!!!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Roll out that dopey idea in Martha’s Vinyard....


51 posted on 01/23/2024 5:47:57 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Authors?

Eliza Relman
Jennifer Sor

Did search, 2 flaming lefties, to young to have firm gray matter.

Totally Nuts.


52 posted on 01/23/2024 5:51:02 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Gnome1949
It is not just their “shelter.” This is their comfort zone. Many prefer to die in their own, long-time home.

My parents were that way, I couldn't reason with them to move out of their 2 story w/basement home (with no toilet on the main floor). For the last 3 months of my mom's life she never left the couch, they used a portable potty. I literally had to carry my mom out of the house into a nursing home where she passed 4 days later. When I was trying to get them to move late 90s early 2000 they could have gotten $150K for their Detroit house, when my dad finally sold in 2010 he was lucky to get $15K. And he only moved out because he fell doing yard work and wasn't able to move for about an hour. Very frustrating.
53 posted on 01/23/2024 5:52:16 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: GrannyAnn

I was expecting a surplus of housing when the WW2 generation died. The youngest is now 80 y/o.


54 posted on 01/23/2024 5:52:36 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Nobody can afford to refinance a smaller homw or pay rent at a higher rate thanks to the Biden Trainwreckonomy.


55 posted on 01/23/2024 5:53:06 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They don’t want to build homes because when the Nazi Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum takes over the world and exterminates 90% of the population there will be a huge surplus of homes


56 posted on 01/23/2024 5:53:47 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
That said, seniors moving out of 2 story homes makes sense, and they don't have to downsize, just get a large ranch.

Or a stair climber

57 posted on 01/23/2024 5:54:30 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

BTTT


58 posted on 01/23/2024 5:54:49 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Baldwin77

And once again we see Millennials and those behind them complaining about their choices. They keep voting for Marxists while wearing their Che shirt, or their rainbow attire and then complain bitterly that the exact socialist policies they voted for are enacted to their detriment.

Screaming for $15 (now $20 in CA.) government imposed minimum wage and now no one wants to buy an $18 hamburger and fries. Where I live in the last decade voters have approved almost $200 million in additional taxes just for schools. Property taxes are outrageous but the liberals keep voting for it, so even if we sold our home it’s about $800 per month just for the property tax. Pretty sure there aren’t a lot of Millennials who can take that on.

So yeah, keep voting for the “cool kid” Democrats, but stop your bellyaching about how tough you have it now compared to Boomers who used to have common sense and vote that way.


59 posted on 01/23/2024 5:55:17 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Boo Hoo. Those poor millennials will have to wait to inherit my SW Florida 2500 sq. ft. house with a three car garage and a pool. I'm the one who worked 54 years to get it. See if this sounds familiar.

I joined the navy in 1970 because the only jobs available in my small town paid $1.95 an hour and wouldn't pay enough for basic food and shelter.

When I got out of the navy, I worked 40 hours a week while attending state junior college part time via the GI bill. I lived in an 8x42 1950s trailer with a roommate.

I saved enough so I could transfer to the state university and only work 30 hours a week on the second shift and finish my bachelor's degree. Still living in that trailer, but without a roommate, I got a retail management job and continued to finish my Master's degree.

After another two years I moved up to a 15 year old 10x50 trailer and a better full-time job plus a part-time programming job on nights and weekends. I got married. We both lived in that trailer for 3 years and saved every penny. We bought the cheapest crappy house on the market and lived in it for 15 years saving all we could.

At age 49 we had saved enough to purchase a decent 1500 sq. ft., 3 bedroom home in a decent neighborhood. We paid it off in 5 years.

At age 62, we retired to SW Florida with enough to buy that oversized place and savings to live comfortably for the rest of our lives.

It's called living within your means and delayed gratification. I'm pretty sure most of the people posting here have similar stories. The millennials need to learn that they can't have everything right now.

60 posted on 01/23/2024 5:56:11 AM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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