Report: Housing in U.S. Not Set Up to Handle Aging Population

(RECAP: The U.S. is not prepared to accommodate the country’s rapidly growing older population where housing needs are concerned, according to a report by Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and AARP Foundation released on September 2. The report, entitled Housing America’s Older Adults – Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population, estimates that the population of adults age 50 and above will reach 133 million by 2030, a jump of more than 70 percent since the year 2000. But while their numbers are rapidly increasing, the amount of housing that is affordable, physically accessible and well located, is not.)