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Can CoBuying, CoLiving & local preferences help Generation Priced Out?

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

FACT CHECK #RE2020: Any insight into #CoBuying in #Boston. True 1 in 4 sales involves #CoBuyer, not family gifts money but real people (friends or #GoldenGirls) buying together, or some entity taking % ownership? Healthy trend, or sign of market’s…

Posted in #SpeculatorsWithoutBorders, Affordable housing, Co-Living, Consumer protection, Downsizing, Great Senior Sell-Off, Group buying, Intentional Communities, Mlllennials, Real Estate Roundtables

#MicroHousingLab 4/17-26: Are “Spinsters” leading the DIY co-living movement?

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

Commenting on WBUR / OnPointRadio program today on Spinsters: At some point researchers say aging boomers, presumably both sexes, give up on finding a soulmate and look for / co-create a micro-tribe of their own. That may explain why woman…

Posted in Affordable housing, Co-Living, Creative class, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Downsizing, Group buying, Group housing, Intentional Communities

Inequality hits home! Is housing affordability key to livability?

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

CARPE DIEM: Two big events today! Inequality hits home! Let’s use the release of AARP’s Livability Index today and Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s talk tonight in Harvard Square to discuss how America became the most unequal advanced country in the world…

Posted in Affordable housing, Co-Living, Consumer protection, Crowdsourcing, DIY Homebuyers, Downsizing, Housing bubble, Relocating