A viral story about a 28-year-old woman being forced to leave a home she inherited has highlighted the problems with age-restricted living communities in a modern housing market where seniors and retirees aren't downsizing, as they normally would, and young people struggle to make the step into real estate ownership

55+ senior communities and similar age-restricted living communities present a unique problem to young would-be homeowners. As does the social dynamic surrounding them. All of this is pushed to a head by the modern state of the housing market.