They are growing in popularity with the millennial generation.  

While quality of life can be debated, most millennials prefer walkable cities with amenities close at hand, not boring suburbs or dying Midwest cities.  

Plus many millennials, even if they are financially capable of buying a new home, are reluctant to do so because of the 2007-2008 downturn.   

There are rumored plans to bulid and apartment complex overlooking the water with a target demographic of millennials. 

You can help millennials or self employed or too much debt borrowers.4.

I think this goes against conventional wisdom since people think that most buyers would choose bigger lots and less crowded areas with cheaper homes.Lots of reasons why starting with the fact that millennials don't want to sit in a car 2 hours a day and have largely rejected the cookie cutter nature of the suburbs and even home ownership to an extent to the rise of childless couples and delayed child bearing.Of course this doesn't mean every inner city neighborhood will turn to gold and every exurb will turn to dust.  

Millennials overtake Gen X as homebuyers6.

Sounds odd but for the millennial’s, it’s perfect.

These are the millennials who did the thing a lot of people do in a recession which is go to school (it's way more fun to be a broke student in a school full of broke students than a broke adult with no job).

http://postgradproblems.com/the-overconfident-mill...A friend passed this along, I thought BPers would get a kick out of this "guide". :) And take confidence that you've armed yourself with the knowledge to not take t...