NJ Population Shifting Away From Suburbia [AUDIO]

For the past 50 years, the American dream was all about buying a home in the Jersey suburbs, but that?s now started to change.

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Rutgers economist James Hughes says as the economy slowly improves, ?A demographic and economic transformation is taking place ? and for the next 10 years or so, suburbia is not the favored location.?

Hughes says, ?The 3 dynamic growth sectors are the children of the baby boomers- the eco-boomers ? in their 20?s and 30?s ? it?s a rental housing generation ? they want to live in high activity environments, such as Jersey City and Hoboken.? They don?t want to live in a far-flung suburb?The second growth sector?are aging baby boomers ? they are resizing in the housing market- they?re rattling around, by themselves, in a big suburban single family dwelling ? they?d rather be in a walking environment ? and the 3rd growth sector?are foreign born population.? New Jersey ranks 3rd among all the states in the percentage of the population foreign born ? and their location choices tend to be much more urban and much more dense.?

He adds, ?All 3 of those in the short term, really point to rental housing demand, higher density housing configurations, not single family units?I think we?re going to see real segmentation among the suburbs ? some suburbs, with certain attributes ? are still going to be favored locations- other will not?Many suburban homes were built between 1950 and 1970, and the question is ? that stock is now aging, how viable is that in the 21st century??

Eventually however, Hughes says, ?Those eco-boomers are going to become active parenting adults, and so if we?re looking maybe 10 years down the road, we may now have a reverse-swing to suburbia.?

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Source: http://nj1015.com/nj-population-shifting-away-from-suburbia-audio/

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