Archive: Kimberly Blanton

Family get together. Great grandma, mom and girl at home.

More than one in five older Americans is living with other adults – adult offspring, parents, grandchildren, extended family, friends – who are not their romantic partners. A new study examining the housing costs paid by retirees with these arrangements finds a big gulf in who is being helped. The older adults who are guests…

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As the nation was emerging from the pandemic, rents exploded. Two years later, the pressure on rents is starting to ease in response to an increase in multifamily construction, including apartment buildings. But the COVID-era surge continues to haunt renters, who are paying about 20 percent more than they did in 2019, though healthy wag…