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by bezospen15 1519 days ago
You say failure but this is yet another successful grift. Most of them bought homes decades ago and are cashing out at 3-5x without putting any money into it. They're retiring very well off, hence the cost of retirement communities. We will get through housing painfully only to have to deal with retirement costs after that.
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Please just stop with the thinking you are the only generation that has been or is being screwed. I can assure you, most boomers are not retiring “very well off”.

$400,000, the average price of a home these days, is not a lot of money to live on when one or both might end up needing assisted living. My mother-in-law burned through half that in the last nine months of her life despite having incredible insurance and government pension. Now that is a screwing.