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CNBC's "Power Lunch" team talks about why home improvement has stalled with Abbe Will, associate project director at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Jennifer Molinsky, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, tells Bloomberg Radio’s Denise Pellegrini that this drop in home ownership could mean trouble ahead as the group starts to retire.

A new Harvard study shows the inequality of wealth and opportunity that has become a stubborn feature of American life is being entrenched in the oldest segment of society.

For most of US history, people have moved in with relatives or gone to a care facility to live out their final years. Baby boomers don’t want either, and those with resources have generally created the modern idea of remaking old age to fit their lifestyle and retrofitting their homes for aging in place.

A rising awareness that the soon-to-be retired face especially difficult economic challenges makes the issue of senior housing even more pressing.

California will cap rent increases under a new law at a time when more than half of California renters are considered burdened, paying more than 30% of income for housing.

National spending on home remodeling has jumped 31% to $448 billion since 2013, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

One factor that will tend to keep occupancy rates high is the ongoing removal of hundreds of thousands of rental units from the supply. This stems from the reversion of massive numbers of rental single-family homes back to occupancy by the owners.

A national trend of people moving back to cities and driving up prices — like what’s happening in Worcester — is putting pressure on long standing neighborhoods whose residents want to keep living there.

Retirement sometimes calls for flexibility, and moves become harder if they necessitate putting your home on the market. While homeownership is the dominant housing choice, more seniors are renting today.