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Housing
└ Housing Choice Design Competitions
└ Housing Choice Design Competitions
This project will launch a design competition for multifamily and cottage cluster housing, with a focus on accessibility for older adults. The goal is to encourage zoning reforms that allow for a broader spectrum of housing options.
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Tampa, FL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: This project will promote accessory dwelling units as an affordable, accessible housing option through a design competition. Teams from local architecture firms, as well as participants from high school and college architecture programs, will present their ADU designs.
Rock Falls, IL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: Blackhawk Hills Regional Council will hold a rural design competition to create scalable, modular blueprints for multigenerational housing. Entries must be affordable, sustainable, and incorporate universal design principles. Winning designs will be freely available for use in Northwest Illinois.
Fresno, CA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: Funding will support a competition that will invite local students and the design, construction and engineering community to design a sustainable accessory dwelling unit that can be used in a multigenerational setting.
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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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