Two decades ago, I was told that corporations didn't own SFD homes because of maintenance costs, and the economic consensus was clear that the 'non-economically rational' level of maintenance required made it so. Which suggests that maintaining a neighborhood as home-owner dominated requires a type of structure burdened with high maintenance requirement. However, the impacts of that strategic burden manifest when people get too old to do maintenance, or new owners lack the time/capital to maintain things: the housing depreciates rapidly. It also means that when converted to rental units, there is an inevitable shift toward lower maintenance ('ugly but efficient') materials, fixtures and landscaping. Aging households are making some of the same changes as they adapt housing to be able to 'age in place'.
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