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Criteria for Defining Senior Cohousing
SAGE cohousing advocacy group in the US presents a list of criteria that ensures the integrity and authenticity of the senior cohousing model. McCamant & Durrett Architects provide the architectural and certification management of the projects.
2016
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Aging and Homelessness in a Canadian Context
There is a growing body of research examining the experiences of homeless older adults in Canada. Fourteen participants (11 males & 3 females) ages 46 to 57, recruited from the At Home / Chez Soi project in Winnipeg, completed individual semi-structured interviews exploring their experiences of homelessness.
Most participants reported lifelong intermittent homelessness.
2016
Lessons from Finland: helping homeless people starts with giving them homes
The housing first model is quite simple: when people are homeless, you give them housing first – a stable home, rather than progressing them through several levels of temporary and transitional accommodation.
2016
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Aging on the Streets: America’s Growing Older Homeless Population
The face of American homelessness is changing — into an older one. People 50 and older make up more than 30 percent of the nation’s homeless population.
2016
Population Ageing and Housing: Policy Implications
Population ageing is creating economic opportunities as well as significant challenges for the NSW economy and the state government. On the one hand, a growing number of seniors represent a powerful economic force in terms of their consumption spending and their housing assets.
2016
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Is This Sustainable Village The Future Of Retirement?
This article looks at Serenbe, a New Urbanist community outside Atlanta, Georgia. Since opening in 2004, it has grown to include two villages of about 500 residents. Praised by urban planners, architects, and sustainability proponent, construction of the third village aims to make Serenbe a great place to grow old. And maybe a model for a new kind of retirement communities.
2016
Valuing Retirement Housing Exploring the economic effects of specialist housing for older people
The consequence of poor housing can be catastrophic. Older people in particular can see their quality of life diminish through frustration and misery at a lack of independence; and a hastened path to illness, hospitalisation and ultimately an earlier death.
This UK report reveals that the impacts of inappropriate housing for older people.
2016
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The Future of Housing and Home: Scenarios for 2030
This UK report looks at the future through the lens of four different scenarios that challenge the way we think about housing and home. The report provides a fascinating and provocative look at different drivers of change and how these could manifest themselves in the way we live in fifteen to twenty years’ time.
2016
Urban Cohousing the Babayaga Way
A brand new apartment building, Babayagas’ House opened in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, France in October 2012, 13 years after the women first hatched their plan. Many of those years were spent securing government funding for the project.
2016
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Recent housing transfer experience in Australia: implications for affordable housing industry development
Focusing primarily on public housing transfers in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, this Inquiry analysed the associated processes and frameworks to reveal the lessons learned. The case studies reveal aspects of transfer practices such as capturing Rent Assistance-enhanced revenues; the transfer of ‘management’ rather than freehold title; and the absence of a role for tenants.
2016
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."