Aging Well

Housing

Active Living by Design: Community Partnerships
Established in 2001 as a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the organization is administered by the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, the service and outreach arm of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill and provides technical assistance and strategic consultation to communities, professionals, nonprofit agencies and philanthropic organizations across the country on strategies for creating community-led change by working with local and national partners to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.

Aging Services of California
Formerly California Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, this non-profit trade organization represents more than 400 nonprofit providers of senior living and care — including affordable housing, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living, skilled-nursing, and home and community-based care.

Affordable Housing Design Advisor
A web site that brings together resources, tools and ideas from successful affordable housing projects all over the country, and the people who developed, designed and built them.

Builder Online
A commercial site designed for building industry provides good information and resources on current housing trends and construction news.

Center for Universal Design
A national information, technical assistance, and research center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, commercial and public facilities, outdoor environments, and products.

Co-Housing Association of the United States
Promotes the awareness and development of cohousing, provide technical assistance and sustenance to existing cohousing communities in the United States.

Elder Co-Housing Network
A network created to help newly forming cohousing groups and developers create intentional sustainable neighborhoods with an emphasis on older adults (55 years and older).

Housing Assistance Council
A nonprofit corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C. has been helping local organizations build affordable homes in rural America since 1971, and emphasizes local solutions, empowerment of the poor, reduced dependence, and self-help strategies.

Madison Area Community Land Trust
A small community land trust located in the town of Madison, Wisconsin, which serves as a model for building and renovating permanently affordable housing since 1991, as well as protecting urban greenspaces and promoting urban agriculture.

National Association of Home Builders
A web site is designed for those interested in home building and the industry, the NAHB is a trade association that helps promote policies that make housing a national priority and has been serving its members, the housing industry, and the public at large.

National Low Income Housing Coalition
Dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes, sponsors website to help people learn more about housing affordability in the community and nationally, and to help people take action for better and more affordable housing choices.

National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification
Headquartered at the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center at University of Southern California, and funded by The Archstone Foundation and The California Endowment, the Center’s mission is to make supportive housing and home modification a more integral component of successful aging, long-term care, preventive health, and the development of elder-friendly communities

Older Adult Health — Housing
State of North Carolina web site provides a helpful model by offering resources, training and experience related to statewide effort on improving housing and health needs of older adults.

Project Sentinel
Project Sentinel is a non-profit agency providing services to help people resolve housing problems. The agency assists home seekers as well as housing providers through counseling, complaint investigation, mediation, conciliation and education. The services are funded by cities and counties in the greater Bay Area and Central Valley. All services are free and confidential.

Rebuilding Together
A national organization that repairs and renovates homes of low-income residents in need and the facilities of community-based organizations who serve them. The network includes 225 affiliates serving 550 communities nationwide, and mobilizing thousands of volunteers each year.

Senior Cooperative Foundation
An organization that serves as a model for supporting the development of and best practices for senior housing cooperatives with a variety of services, education, and operating programs.

Toolbase Services
A housing industry resource for technical information on building products, materials, new technologies, business management, and housing systems. The NAHB Research Center provides the services, with funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) program, and other industry sponsors.

Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access
The Center is dedicated to improving the design of environments and products by making them more usable, safer and appealing to people with a wide range of abilities throughout their life spans and embraces the concept of universal design, or design of places and products that are usable by and desirable to a broad range of people, including people with disabilities and other often overlooked groups.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — Senior Information
Provides information on financial assistance resources and guides to help in making choices about different types of assistance or living arrangement options.