Understanding the housing choices of the older households will grow in importance as the baby boom generation starts to retire. This proposed analysis utilizes a rich longitudinal data set (PSID) to provide insight into the reasons that older households leave homeownership to become renters....

While several reports (e.g. Lebergott, 1993; Moore and Simon, 1999; Cox and Alm, 1999) document stunning advances in health, longevity and material well being and while it is no longer disreputable to credit the market economy, most current discussions of cities and land use see only market failures. A...

This study examines the role of the current proximity to children and recent moves of children within a proximate distance in housing tenure transitions of older households. This study is the first to investigate the interplay between health status of older households, moves of their children,...