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I thought they were known for the 100yr mortgage. And multigenerational living/thinking. That's all I've heard about.
by njharman 5y ago
I thought they were known for the 100yr mortgage. And multigenerational living/thinking.
That's all I've heard about.
- freetime2 5y agoThey are also known for knocking down houses after 30 years[1]. Things are changing, though. It’s becoming more common to renovate and buy secondhand houses. And multi-generational households are also becoming much less common [2]. > The percentage of multigenerational households has been halved over the past two decades, dropping from 50% to 24% [1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusable-housing-revolution https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl... [2] https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/62/5/S330/570920 https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/62/5/S3...