Our new working paper explores healthy home concerns and behaviors among American homeowners and renters. We show that both groups are interested in improving the indoor…
Mariel Wolfson, Elizabeth La Jeunesse
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March 25, 2016
Information about Americans' healthy housing concerns, including principles of indoor air and environmental quality, and surveys analyzing perceptions of homeowners, renters…
This Spring, I attended the National Healthy Homes Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The three-day conference attracted over 1,000 attendees, including more than 150…
Current discussions of climate change do not often focus on housing. Unless large numbers of homes are destroyed or damaged by extreme weather events such as hurricanes,…
W13-4: This paper is part of a larger project that situates American housing within the ecologically-oriented 1970s, when energy independence and environmental…
W99-6: The housing choices of the elderly are classified into five types: assisted communities, unassisted 60 plus communities, shared housing, supported housing and…
W99-4: This paper explores the housing choices of America’s elderly households drawing on data from the recently available Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest-…
W99-3: This paper explores the characteristics of America’s elderly population, using data from the recently available Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest-Old (…
W98-4: Hundreds of thousands of adult Americans are able to work or attend education/training programs despite their physical or mental disabilities. For these people, a…
W98-7: Due to the financing mechanisms currently available, homeowners tend to have too much of their portfolios invested in their homes and institutional investors have…