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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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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.
Montclair, NJ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: The grant will fund a design competition that will provide homeowners with plans for building accessory dwelling units and documentation for obtaining planning board approval.
San Antonio, TX
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: A design competition for accessory dwelling units will encourage families and students to think creatively about ADUs as a way to create multigenerational households and provide for older family members so they can age in place.
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Billings, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Park enhancements
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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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