Reporters are well known for their hysterics and exaggeration, but this is the plain truth: San Diego is not even close to ready for the coming population boom of seniors.

Some of the statistics are starting to find a place in our consciousness. The share of old people is growing much faster than other groups. In just a three-year period, between 2020 and 2023, San Diego’s 65-plus population grew by 9 percent, while every other groups shrank, as Axios reported. Very soon we’ll have more old people than young. American society has never been proportioned in such a way and the proportions are only going to get more and more lopsided. We are in the early days.

The people retiring today don’t have as much money and assets as they did 20 years ago. Home ownership, which grants stability and e

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