Affluent retirees and downsizers fleeing high-tax Northeast metros are reshaping Lancaster County’s housing market in ways that may be pricing out the next generation of local buyers. What was once one of Pennsylvania’s most stable and accessible markets is now caught between two competing forces: the flood of outside capital drawn by relative affordability, and the local workforce that built the community but can no longer afford to stay in it. The consequences are showing up in the data and on the ground. Rising median home prices, shrinking days-on-market, and an increase in all-cash transactions reflect a market increasingly shaped...