The Silent Generation, or those born between 1928 and 1945, once held a significant portion of the nation's wealth, including real estate. However, this aging cohort, which is actually the smallest in ...

Social Security is a key source of income for many people in the Silent Generation, which makes the timing of when benefits start especially important. Many retirees in this group filed as soon as ...

The strange house on 23rd Street — a trapezoid of plywood, shower glass and chain link fence — was the laughingstock of our Santa Monica neighborhood. Even Frank Gehry’s gardener joked about the ...

Many of the people who moved there grew up in the city. They wanted more spacious houses for their growing families — and big yards where kids could play. Many also wanted to be near St. Germaine ...

This 18% of the U.S. population controls 34.1% of the housing stock—29.6 million homes and $13.8 trillion in housing value.

In honor of #OlderAmericansMonth, this post is fourth in a series about not-so-silent women of the "Silent Generation" who’ve impacted and improved America, at least from my perspective. The unfolding ...

I drove my 89-year-old mother through our old Pittsburgh neighborhood last Sunday. It was like many suburban neighborhoods that sprouted up across America in the 1960s and ’70s. Many of the people who ...