#multi-generational homes

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Do you need a multi-generational home, a home for all your friends, or thinking of starting a cult? I got you. Check out this 1928 home in Dearborn, MI that's already been renovated to accommodate multi-generational living. 7bds, 4ba, 5,312sqft, $549k.

They remodeled it to accommodate everybody in one big, happy, living room. Interesting what they did with the ceiling. (Can you imagine going into a furniture store, picking out a living room set, and saying, "I'd like 10 couches and a half dozen matching side chairs.")

The kitchen is off to the side.

This must be the dining room. There's also a TV room. It's blocked by a sofa, though. Well, there's enough space to squeeze by.

To help a regular family envision this home, the realtor Photoshopped some furniture in.

Maybe the TV room is for the younger members of the family.

One kitchen is not enough to accommodate so many people, so there's another full size one. You can never have enough kitchens.

I find it interesting that the bedroom furniture is placed in the same pattern as the living room, even though it doesn't need to be.

Bath #1. It's been updated, but it's such a narrow space.

The playroom.

And, a family bedroom.

The attic was finished to accommodate more bedrooms. This house didn't originally have 7 bedrooms.

Note that there is another kitchen up here.

There is also a finished basement.

Wow, look at the size of this rec room.

There's a nice big shower room down here, too.

In the back there's a 2 car garage, a small deck, and a small yard.

4,791.6sqft lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7312-Theisen-St-Dearborn-MI-48126/160183201_zpid/?

[newstfionline]

More Young Adults Are Poor, Live With Their Parents

By Brad Tuttle, TIME, September 14, 2011 It's not your imagination: It really is more crowded at mom and dad's place. The Census Bureau made headlines yesterday with news that the nation's official poverty rate hit 15.1%, the highest since 1993. Tough times have also translated into a rise in adult children moving back into (or never leaving) their parent's homes. In the spring of 2011, 5.9 million young adults aged 25 to 34 lived with their parents, up from 4.7 million before the recession. And these adult kids still at mom and dad's make very little money: Over 45% have incomes that'd put them below the poverty threshold.

The U.S. Census Bureau puts these adult children living with their parents in the category of "doubled-up households"--when at least one extra adult resides in the home who is not in school and/or is outside the typical family unit. As of last spring, doubled-up households represented 18.3% of American residences (21.8 million total), up from 17% four years ago, when there were 19.7 doubled-up households.

In addition to adult kids sticking around longer, in recent years there has also been a rise in multi-generational homes where extended families of kids, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and/or cousins live under the same roof. A 2010 survey had it that 16.1% of Americans lived in multi-generational households, compared to 12.1% of the population in 1980. (For that matter, last year also witnessed an increase (8% more) of children living with their grandparents.)