Are Millennials leaving town? Yes, they are. Are young adults leaving town? No, they are not. The seemingly contradicting answers are due to the fact that age and birth…
The share of older households with debt secured by their primary residence more than doubled between 1995 and 2016. This study uses the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to…
Aging in place is a policy goal for many governments and a personal goal for numerous older people. But what does it mean? Drawing on both scholarly and gray literature, this…
This article examines older adults’ housing circumstances in the United States, including household composition, housing tenure, physical and financial aspects, geography and…
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…
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…
Har Ye Kan, Ann Forsyth, Jennifer Molinsky
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February 13, 2020
What audit tools are available to assess neighborhood suitability for aging in place? Drawing on theories from environmental gerontology, the article outlines physical and…
This literature review provides an overview of existing literature on the topic of shared equity housing programs in the US. It seeks to identify common elements, benefits,…
