Manufactured housing holds promise as an affordable form of housing that could expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households at a time when house…
Chris Herbert, Jennifer Molinsky, Samara Scheckler
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October 1, 2023
Adults 65 and older are the fastest growing age group of people experiencing homelessness, yet housing insecurity and homelessness is especially dangerous for them. This…
Chris Herbert, Chadwick Reed, James Shen
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July 10, 2023
Manufactured housing holds promise as an affordable form of housing that could expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households at a time when house…
Dr. Herbert was honored to testify in a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing, "The State of Housing 2023." In his testimony, he highlighted the nation’s…
Digitalization—the strategic use of technologies that collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing the ways that housing is produced,…
Chris Herbert, Jennifer Molinsky, Samara Scheckler
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September 1, 2022
Household composition is associated with older residents’ access to resources. This research uses the pandemic period as a stress-test to detect differences in resilience…
Chris Herbert, Jennifer Molinsky, Samara Scheckler, Kacie Dragan
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October 15, 2021
Older adult homeowners increasingly carry mortgage debt into retirement. The share of homeowners aged 65 and older with outstanding mortgages doubled between 1989 and 2016,…
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…
Alexander Hermann, Chris Herbert, Jennifer Molinsky
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February 10, 2020
Over the last few decades the share of older homeowners (age 62 and older) with mortgage debt has doubled, while the typical amount of outstanding debt relative to home…