As young buyers scrape together down payments, boomers are sitting on $82 trillion in wealth —more than twice what Gen X has and four times as much as millennials . New research shows the wealth gap has only widened since the 1980s, as older generations saw bigger gains in homeownership and stocks while younger people took on faster-growing mortgage debt. With boomers holding onto large homes and aging in place, younger buyers are struggling to break into a shrinking market.

As younger generations struggle to buy their first homes , boomers are accumulating wealth and tightening their grip on assets that millennials and Gen Z need to get richer.

Thanks to a perfect storm of economic luck , such as affordable home prices and steady wages, boomers have accumulated a collect

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