CHICAGO: Residential parks are starting to draw a younger age group than retirement communities. Whilst retirement communities have gravitated toward 80 plus, the residential parks sub-set is attracting adherents down to 45 years old.

The central mandela for their growing market penetration is lower housing prices (achievable via manufactured housing), the embrace of land rental, locations in sunshine belts, on the water or based in marinas, and enhanced health/well-being and recreational facilities…

This trend is covered in detail in the Seniors Housing Trends Text Book Series