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2018 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
Project Category
Housing
This grant helped to provide solutions to four lower income and elderly individuals in order to maintain retain home ownership
Project Results
The AARP Community Challenge grant enabled the MicroLife Institute to create a video documentary — called Something Small: Atlanta ADUs — about the ways accessory dwelling units can help people age in place. Funds were also used to demonstrate the viability of "micro ADUS" of 200- to 500-square-feet. (The pictures below show a "tiny home" ADU and two homes built out of cargo ship containers.) For property owners — such as one who appears in an AARP video about the institute's grant — an ADU can provide rental income from either the ADU itself or by moving into it and renting the lot's primary dwelling.
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Atlanta, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Housing
Description: Resource coordinators will be hired to inform longtime residents about the organizations Legacy Resident Retention Program, which provides financial assistance to cover property-tax increases.
Atlanta, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Transportation
Description: To help improve the safety of a notoriously dangerous street for walking and bicycling small-scale, inexpensive traffic calming devices (including a painted bike line, bollards, a parklet and signage) will be installed, tested, refined, and eventually encourage permanent changes.
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