Flickr / Jakob Montrasio Millennials are finally looking at the housing market. Housing is in short supply for those millennials looking to buy. Millennials officially surpassed Baby Boomers in 2017 as borrowers for high-end mortgages. Whether you call them the Selfie Generation, Generation Me or the Do-Gooder Generation, it’s clear that millennials are the biggest and most economically powerful population on the planet.