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Due to both population growth and soaring housing costs, the number of adults age 65 and over struggling to afford housing is growing. The number of cost-burdened older…

In the past several years, “home sharing” among older adults has garnered increased attention, with news stories focusing on “the Golden Girls trend” and a growing number of…

Within 20 years, one in five Americans—almost 80 million people—will be older than 65 and, surveys indicate, they will want to remain in the current homes for as long as…

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Senior Health and Housing Task Force recently released Healthy Aging Begins at Home, a report and set of policy recommendations centered on…

Since 2005, the number of renter households aged 50 and over has increased dramatically, jumping from 10 to nearly 15 million, and accounting for more than half of all renter…

Earlier this week, the MacArthur Foundation released the results of its third annual How Housing Matters survey. Conducted by Hart Research, the survey of 1401 adults…

Earlier this month, the Joint Center for Housing Studies, together with the Loeb Fellowship and African American Student Unionat the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD),…

The nation’s older population has grown tremendously since the first of the baby boomers turned 50 in the mid-1990s, with the number of 50-64 year olds nearly doubling…

Though the national homeownership rate rose to its highest level ever in 2005, millions of Americans saw their hopes of building wealth through homeownership dashed in the…

America’s older population is poised for unprecedented growth. The youngest members of the baby boom population, born 1946-1964, have turned 50, while the oldest boomers have…