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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.
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.
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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Bainbridge Island, WA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public or private transit access
Description: This pilot project aims to help older adults travel events at the local senior center, as well as shopping trips, medical appointments and cultural activities. Over a 12-week period, the senior center worked with volunteer and contracted drivers to provide transportation on weekdays. The center deployed its passenger bus, as well as a transit van and personal vehicles, to provide on-demand rides. Organizers say lessons learned during the pilot will inform plans for a permanent transportation program.
Seattle, WA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This project will provide digital literacy classes to Latino immigrant workers. This will give lower-income residents access to computers and improve their technology skills, allowing them to access job opportunities.
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