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Roanoke, VA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: The project will stage an accessory dwelling unit design competition that will increase public awareness of this housing option. The competition will result in a set of plans that homeowners and developers can use to build an ADU on a single-family residential lot.
Lihue, HI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: This project will create a competition to solicit accessory dwelling unit designs and promote ADUs as aa opportunity for affordable housing, particularly for older adults. It will culminate in a book, available online and free of charge, to further best practices and knowledge sharing around ADU development.
Anchorage, AK
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: This project will hold a design competition where teams will test recent local zoning reform efforts. Each team will create feasible designs for missing middle housing, including accessible units for people age 50 and older. The competition will also communicate the benefits of multi-generational housing.
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Billings, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project will add signage to Lillis Park that will encourage older adults to pursue their walking and exercise goals.
Anaconda, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County purchased two ADA-compliant picnic tables to accommodate older adults and residents with disabilities. Placed in Kennedy Commons, the tables are painted the distinctive accessibility blue, making them easily identifiable. County staff installed them on level ground so they are easy for wheelchair users to access. In the future, the County expects to purchase eight more tables so residents can gather and dine together.
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