The 'growing crisis of the young American male' could send home prices falling for years or even decades [View all]
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/growing-crisis-young-american-male-185400449.html
Meredith Whitney, deemed the Oracle of Wall Street for successfully calling the financial crisis, says home prices are likely to fall substantially, and the reasons have to do with habits picked up by young guys.
You have men staying single longer
and then you have what I call a growing crisis of the young American male
theyre twice as likely to live at home than women. So one out of five young men live at home with their parents, and these arent young men going to college and coming home for holiday breaks, these are young, grown men choosing to live at home, Whitney told CNBC this morning.
The outcome could have profound effects on the housing market, she said.
I think youre going to start to see housing prices begin a multi-year/decade decline, just due to supply/demand dynamics, Whitney said. So youve had a demand, supply imbalance: more demand, less supply. And I think thats going to invert. So what that means is supply will then outweigh demand, which is why she sees home prices falling for years.