This paper extrapolates from data from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finance to project household wealth, by wealth quintile, for the cohort that will be between the ages of 45-54 in 2009 under three alternative scenarios. The first scenario assumes that real house prices fall no further than their level as of March 2008. The second scenario assumes that real house prices fall an additional 10 percent as a 2009 average. The third scenario assumes that real house prices fall an additional 20 percent for a 2009 average. The projections show that the vast majority of families in these age cohorts will have little or no wealth by 2009 in any of these scenarios and that the cohorts just approaching retirement will have very little to support themselves in retirement other than their Social Security. The projections also show that a large number of families in these age cohorts will have little or no equity in their homes in 2009. Finally, the projections show that the renters within the same wealth quintiles in 2004 will have more wealth in 2009 than homeowners in all three scenarios.
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers
Contributing Organization(s): Center for Economic and Policy Research
Author(s)/Creator(s): Dean Baker; David Rosnick
Publishing Date: 2008-06-24
Issue Areas: Economic Development; Housing and Homelessness; Aging
Ownership/Rights Info: Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic
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Type/Format: FactSheet; Survey
Language code: English
Type/Format: FactSheet; Survey
Language code: English
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