Tag: senior housing
I recently toured Opus, an inspiring new senior living development in Newton, Massachusetts, and then had a conversation with its founder, Amy Schectman, on my Risking Old Age in America podcast. Amy explained to me how she had helped develop both a high-end senior living development, NewBridge on the Charles, and lower-income senior housing, Brown Family Life. Wit…
We have a housing crisis in the United States that has as much to do with the types of housing available as the quantity. Builders construct luxury McMansions because they are more profitable than middle-income housing. Seniors can’t move out of their single-family homes because there are few alternatives nearby. Both factors limit the supply…
