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Cleveland Heights, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: The city will hold a design competition to highlight the benefits of accessory dwelling units, particularly for older adults. Residents will be able to access plans for the winning designs for free, making constructing an ADU in the community easier.
Bellingham, WA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: This project will launch an accessory dwelling unit design competition and make plans for ADUs available to the public in order to promote the housing solution, particularly for older residents.
Hamilton, NJ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: NJAAW will host a design competition to promote age-friendly and affordable housing in New Jersey. The competition will focus on ADUs, single-family, and multi-family housing, judged on middle-income solutions and universal design. Winning designs will be publicized statewide to encourage development.
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Montclair, NJ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This project will expand a pilot program that offers digital literacy training to older adults. Participants will learn to use assistive technology to help them age in place, as well as digital messaging tools to keep them informed during emergencies.
Montclair, NJ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: A local Boy Scout troop will work alongside older residents to create a vegetable garden featuring raised beds and an accessible pathway. The township will share produce from the garden with a local food pantry.
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