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The Wall Street Journal

OK Boomer, Who’s Going to Buy Your 21 Million Homes?

New research from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that households in their preretirement years, age 50 to 64, are less likely to own a home than prior generations, have suffered from stagnant income growth since 2000, and are more debt-burdened, including by student loans.

Yahoo

Home improvement spending is expected to fall

Abbe Will, Associate Project Director of the Remodeling Futures Program, explains how new data suggests renovation and maintenance spending is about to decline over the next year for the first time in a decade.

Reuters

Wealth gap among retired Americans worsens despite a growing economy

The current record-high level of income inequality in the United States affects all segments of society, but two new reports shed light on how the trend is impacting older Americans.The disturbing finding of both studies: inequality has reached shocking levels among today’s older adults - and the gap will be much wider for young people when they reach retirement age.