Owning a home has the potential to provide older adults with higher levels of financial security, housing stability, and housing quality. Given that a large majority of older…
These Issue Briefs, authored by Rachel Bratt, a Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and former visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of…
In the 1980s, nearly one in five Americans moved every year. About one in ten Americans moved between 2018 and 2019. Residential mobility rates have been falling for decades…
Expenditures for home improvements to the owner-occupied housing stock are anticipated to decline in most of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas this year in response to…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Bernadette Hanlon, Shannon Rieger
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April 3, 2020
Scholars conducting empirical research on U.S. suburbs must develop their own definition of suburbia. In this paper, we operationalize three suburban definitions commonly…
Hyojung Lee, Dowell Myers, Johanna Thunell, Julie Zissimopoulos
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March 1, 2020
This study examines the role of direct parental assistance in their adult children's home buying, net of other resources. Past research has cited the importance of down…
Most research on right‐wing populism has tried to explain the rise of populist movements and parties. While some have studied how neighborhood contexts and histories shape…
What audit tools are available to assess neighborhood suitability for aging in place? Drawing on theories from environmental gerontology, the article outlines physical and…
