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Tempe, AZ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: Tempe will host an ADU design competition to create accessible housing for adults age 50 and older. The competition will produce a library of standard ADU plans, reducing design costs and permit challenges for homeowners.

Mobile, AL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: This project will host an ADU design competition among schools in southwest Alabama, providing on-the-job training and constructing ADUs for older adults and veterans using the AARP Housing Design Competition Toolkit and Home Fit Program as program implementation guidelines.

Woodstock, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions

Description: Shenandoah County will hold a design competition to create pre-approved ADU plans, expanding housing options for older adults and those living alone. This project aims to help residents age in place and increase affordable housing in the community.

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Fresno, CA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Engaging residents alongside thought leaders in problem solving

Description: Statewide advocacy in California can be a difficult process for residents to navigate. To increase community engagement towards more livable communities, the California State University Fresno Foundation created a curriculum tailored to adults aged 50 or older. The Foundation then provided 24 hours of online instruction to a cohort of older adults over the course of several weeks. Participants learned about issues facing older adults in the Central Valley, where the fastest growing demographic is adults over the age of 85. The students heard from -- and about -- local community groups. They also improved their public speaking, leadership and advocacy skills.

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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