Jennifer Molinsky is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, where she manages the Center’s work on housing and aging. She was lead author on the Center’s major reports on the challenges of housing an aging society, including The State of the Nation’s Housing for Older Adults (2018 and 2019) and Housing America’s Older Adults: Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population (2014). Dr. Molinsky’s work also looks at policy solutions to increase the supply of affordable, accessible housing, service delivery to the home, and livable communities supportive of older adults, and she has also written about the role of housing in wellbeing and health in older age. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT and a Masters of Public Affairs-Urban and Regional Planning from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and has experience as a practicing city planner.