“Baby boomers are over-housed, essentially they’re moving from their very large 4 bedroom homes, they’re empty nesters and they don’t need all that space,” said Rutgers University economist James Hughes.
Hughes said the bursting of the housing bubble a decade ago changed attitudes toward homeownership very significantly.
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