The Next Housing Crisis

Will the aging of America cause it?:

[Arthur] Nelson [director of the Metropolitan Research Center at the University of Utah] calls what’s coming the “great senior sell-off.” It’ll start sometime later this decade (Nelson is defining baby boomers as those people born between 1946 and 1964). And he predicts that it could cause our next real housing crisis. “Ok, if there’s 1.5 to 2 million homes coming on the market every year at the end of this decade from senior households selling off,”  Nelson  asks, “who’s behind them to buy? My guess is not enough.”

(Hat tip: WRM)