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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Pedestrian Safety

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Phoenix, AZ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Pedestrian Safety

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Tulsa, OK

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Pedestrian Safety

Description: This project will enhance pedestrian safety and walkability in by improving crosswalks, adding directional signage, and incorporating street beautification.

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Evanston, IL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: This project will feature an eight-workshop series called Connected and Confident: Tech Skills for Everyday Living to empower older adults with digital skills.

Evanston, IL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020

Project Category: Accessory dwelling units, tiny homes and manufactured housing

Description: To help mitigate housing affordability challenges, the City of Evanston created a digital guide for homeowners looking to build accessory dwelling units to their property. Written in partnership with the Evanston Development Cooperative, the guide covers zoning, financing, design and construction, as well as information about who typically lives in ADUs. Additionally, the City hosted a webinar on ADU construction, which it recorded and posted on its website. In fall 2020, the City updated its ADU ordinance to give homeowners more flexibility, allowing them to create separate housing units either attached to or within their existing homes. Project organizers say the guidebook has helped spread the word about the update. ADU construction in Evanston has increased since the guidebook's publication and City has worked to make model ADU blueprints available to residents.

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