{"id":99,"date":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","slug":"united-states-needs-more-senior-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/united-states-needs-more-senior-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Needs More Senior Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/michelle-wood-1\/america-senior-housing-remotion-videos-c5a4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>By 2030, Americans over 80 are projected to add 5M people, roughly a third more than today, then nearly double by 2040.<br \/>\nTo keep up, the US needs 576K units by 2030 and 1M by 2040, requiring $1T in new senior housing investment nationwide.<br \/>\nConstruction slump plus aging stock: only ~10K new senior units started in 2025, one-third of 2021, while ~40% of existing inventory is &gt;25 yr old.<br \/>\nMarket fundamentals improved as slower building let existing units fill: occupancy rebounded to ~93%, strongest in ~10 yr, while absorption averaged ~32K yearly.<br \/>\nExperts said if construction stays slow, scarcity could grow, making more appealing right-sized homes and lower move-related costs important for older Americans considering downsizing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2030, Americans over 80 are projected to add 5M people, roughly a third more than today, then nearly double by 2040. To keep up, the US needs 576K units by 2030 and 1M by 2040, requiring $1T in new senior housing investment nationwide. Construction slump plus aging stock: only ~10K new senior units started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellewoodrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}