As Baby Boomers continue to retire en masse without sufficient savings to support their later years, it’s become glaringly apparent that the country is on the brink of a retirement crisis. But many older Americans do have one major source of wealth at their disposal: their house. And for some, utilizing their home equity through a reverse mortgage could be the answer to their late-in-life money problems, leading some experts to call the HECM program important public policy.