Tag: demographics
Demographics love multifamily
While these statistics tend to move hand in hand, sometimes patterns emerge that show a chasm in these numbers, and demographers are keen to...
Something for everyone
Demographic shifts—the impact of retiring baby boomers and the rise of the Millennial generation—will likely have the most significant impact on real estate near-...
The importance of words
Fully 66 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of an economy managed by the government while 58 percent have a negative view of...
The next bubble?
Apartment sales volumes are back to peak levels. Prices have jumped to all-time highs. Cap rates have dropped to long-time lows. And with demand...
The next question facing cities: Will Millennials stay?
Mostly these are the Millennials—adults roughly 20 to 34-years-old, also known as Generation Y or the Echo Boom—who have delayed childbearing, marriage, and even...
Without influxes of Hispanics and Asians, some U.S. cities would be smaller
According to recent census data, Hispanics accounted for the population growth of Philadelphia, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Omaha and Atlanta. Asians boosted the count in Anaheim,...
The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy
This also means that, as the economic recovery deepens and the labor market recovers, communities of color will have to climb out of a...
The new abnormal
The current circumstances might be better described as the new abnormal, in which no one knows anything. In June the Conference Board Consumer Confidence...
