Housing

Housing and service related activities include:

• Facilitating neighborhood and special interest group meetings
• Educating around issues such as finance, accessibility, and more
• Developing case studies, best practices, and an inter-disciplinary glossary
• Creating a searchable housing and services/amenities directory
• Constructing the case for elder housing as a necessary part of a vital, sustainable community

For more information, call Tracy Straub, 414-289-0890.

Housing reports

Expanding Housing Options: 2007 Issues in Aging Report. Milwaukee Aging Consortium, 2008

State Housing Profiles: A Special Analysis of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey," by Andrew Kochera, AARP Public Policy Institute, March, 2007

WHEDA Housing Tax Credits 2007 (Business Journal online brief article)

A Quiet Crisis In America Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility. Definitive report to Congress, 2002.

Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century

Elderly Housing Consumption: Historical Patterns and Projected Trends (November 2005)

Fundamental Housing Policy Reform (2006) E.O. Olsen, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin

Senior Housing Ideas Competition, Aging in Community, UWM-SARUP 2007

Aging in Community Design Solutions (competition report) http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IAE/pdf/Aging%20in%20Community%20Booklet%202007.pdf

Participating firms

• AG Architecture
• Continuum Architects + Planners, SC
• Eppstein Uhen Architects, Inc.
• Engberg Anderson Design Partnership, Inc.
• Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc.
• Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP
• Quorum Architects, Inc.
• Zimmerman Design Group, Inc.

Affordable housing

Housing Authority City of Milwaukee. Milwaukee was named a World Leader in affordable housing in 2005. Look around here and you'll see why.

Millbank Memorial Trust Fund Report: Public Housing and Supportive Services for the Frail Elderly: A Guide for Housing Authorities and Their Collaborators

Milwaukee Department of City Development. See comprehensive plan and plans for targeted neighborhoods.

HUD (Housing and Urban Development) in Wisconsin

• Index
• Privately owned subsidized housing in Milwaukee
• HUD Milwaukee Report 2005
• Rental help Wisconsin
• Home ownership Wisconsin Home ownership Wisconsin
• Senior citizens

WHEDA Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority http://www.wheda.com

Wisconsin Front Door to Affordable Housing

Senior co-operative housing

http://www.answers.com/topic/housing-cooperative

http://www.coophousing.org/benefits_of_coop.shtml  

Senior Cooperative Foundation website

Realife Cooperative of Eau Claire

Cooperative Development Services Senior Co-op Housing site

Cooperative Development Foundation.

Comparison table http://www.coophousing.org/coop_comparison.shtml (co-ops, rentals, condos, and home ownership)

Co-ownership and Tenancy in Common (TIC)

Resource about legal aspects of co-ownership

TIC is a newer kind of co-ownership that's growing in popularity

Senior Co-housing

Cohousing Association of the United States http://www.cohousing.org/elder-cohousing.aspx

The Elder Cohousing Network http://www.eldercohousing.org/

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