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  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Where I live they also have housing exclusive to 55+ so it’s much cheaper since there’s a smaller market for them.

    Ruins the housing economy and then holds some that’s only available for themselves for cheap while they downsize for a massive nestegg.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      11 hours ago

      It is generally cheaper where I live because towns have to build affordable housing and it is considered more acceptable to have poor elderly people than poor people with children.

      • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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        11 hours ago

        The 55+ areas where I live are generally little rancher communities or apartments, some are low income type apartments but many are also luxury type apartments.

        I could understand if the apartments or ranchers were built with accessibility in mind like shower bars and taller toilets, etc.

        But mostly it’s just because they don’t like screaming children playing in the neighbourhood.

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      11 hours ago

      Is it a problem that the 55+ housing lowers prices of other housing in the area, or that seniors are selling their old homes and actually keeping the money from the sale?

      • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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        10 hours ago

        In the area I live in there’s a lot of places 55+ so it limits the amount of housing in the city available to working class people and those trying to raise families, increasing their housing prices. The community has a lot of old folks.