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La Crosse, WI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: This project will launch an accessory dwelling unit design competition to promote affordable residential development, with a focus on older adults' housing needs. Winning designs will serve as models for ADU construction, expediting the approval process for homeowners.

Jackson, TN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: The City of Jackson will host an ADU design competition to create three pre-approved plans, making it easier and more affordable for homeowners to build ADUs. This project aims to support aging in place and multi-generational living.

Fresno, CA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: This design competition will invite professionals and students to explore adaptive reuse options for an existing empty office space. The contestants will explore how to reuse empty commercial spaces to combat the housing crisis.

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Anadarko, OK

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: Delaware Nation created an accessible community garden in an area designated as a food desert. Residents of all ages use the garden to plant and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables. The garden includes 25 raised beds, constructed at different heights to accommodate older adults and people with mobility differences. Two beds are specifically designated for growing native plants. Delaware Nation also purchased gardening tools, including wheelbarrows, trellises, garden hoses, an irrigation system and reusable frost blankets. Much of the produce grown onsite is used in meals prepared for the tribe's older members. Tables, shade umbrellas and a charcoal grill allow tribal members to gather and enjoy produce from the garden together.

Lawton, OK

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This project will create a community garden where Comanche elders can grow vegetables and flowers. Participating gardeners will plan, tend and harvest their plots and distribute their produce to the community.

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