There’s the ideal home. Then there are the homes in which we actually live. The discrepancy between the two is the topic of a new report from the Demand Institute on what it calls the housing satisfaction gap. More than 10,000 households – including renters and owners – participated in a survey about their current homes and their ideal ones. Perhaps because the desire to save money on rising energy costs is so universal, energy efficiency has the highest satisfaction gap in the report. This feature may be more important than in past years, as people report cooking and eating at home more now, compared with five years ago, according to the report. And between now and 2020, the number of households headed by a person 65 and older is expected to grow 10 times faster than other households. No surprise then that 76% of participants said that it’s important to live in a home that they can stay in as they get older. [Read this article]
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