8 Top 2022 Trends With Home And Housing Wellness Impacts
Abstract
What were 2022's top trends with impacts on the wellness potential of our homes and housing markets? It's worth noting them for their likely strength in the new year. Clearly, Covid is still playing a role in how homeowners choose to enhance their homes and how builders market them. Smart home technology is making it easier to add safety, health, comfort and convenience to our living spaces. Increased solar panel and EV sales are spurring the acquisition of home electricity storage, which can enhance resilience against future power outages, especially for individuals with electrified medical equipment. It's becoming much more expensive, difficult and time-consuming to build homes and complete home improvement projects. Though there are laws and regulations slowly being enacted to combat it, and market forces driving reforms, climate change is impacting the safety, resilience and comfort of our homes and residential communities. There are already regions of India that are becoming uninhabitable because of rising temperatures, low-lying regions across the globe losing ground to rising sea levels, and new construction homes in Arizona being built and sold without water sources because of growing shortages.