The fuels we use in our homes have wide-reaching effects: nearly one-fifth of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions come from the residential sector. The debate over…
With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors…
As we noted in our most recent report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, the number of cost-burdened renters hit a record high in 2022 as half of all households spent more than…
In the US, millions of older adults struggle to afford both housing and the long-term care (LTC) services they increasingly require as they age, such as help with personal…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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February 20, 2024
In our recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, we noted that rental markets are finally cooling after substantial overheating. This slowdown in rent growth…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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January 25, 2024
Climbing rents in recent years propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. This all-time high of 22.4 million…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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January 25, 2024
Our new report America’s Rental Housing 2024 examines the state of rental housing in the US, including the critical affordability and policy challenges facing the nation…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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November 30, 2023
Over the next ten years, the US population over the age of 75 will increase by 45 percent, from 17 million to nearly 25 million. The growth is widespread, across urban,…
The US population 65 and over soared by 34 percent in the last decade, from 43 million in 2012 to 58 million in 2022. In the coming decade, the fastest growth will occur…
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…