Monday, August 24, 2009

Baby boom - Population distribution

I've made several references to the likely growth in multi-family & senior housing. This graph at calculatedriskblog.com shows the baby boom crowd as they move through the years. We're at the point where they are in the range of 45-55 and the demand for suburban housing reflects this. Soon though, many of these aging suburban dwellers will want more aminities, healthier living and want less home-maintainence demands. The ideal answer for many will likely be a more urban, walkable lifestyle.

The projections show them dying off and the curve smoothing out - but then we get this huge population spike in 20+ years of +80 folks. These folks will require somewhere to live - and that somewhere will likely NOT include driving themselves places.

The GaiaShip design can easily be used to build 'Sun City' like places for all these folks.

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