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Universal Design: An Introduction
An impediment to the broad adoption of UD features in housing has been the lack of understanding about what UD is and isn't. Learn More
RELATED PAGES
- AARP HomeFit Guide
- All About ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units)
- All About Missing Middle Housing
- Free Guides for Expanding Housing Options
- Veterans Home Benefits Guide
SPECIAL EVENTS
- AARP Livable Communities Housing Workshop (2022)
- Housing a Changing America Exhibition Slideshow (2019)
FREE PUBLICATIONS
- AARP HomeFit Guide, Worksheets and Videos
- AARP HomeFit Model Ordinance: Local and State Legislative Guide to Universal Design in Housing
- AARP Housing Design Competition Tool Kit
- AARP Roadmap to Livability: Housing Workbook
- Accessory Dwelling Units: A Step-by-Step Guide to Design and Development
- ADU Model State Act and Local Ordinance
- Discovering and Developing Missing Middle Housing
- Expanding Middle Housing Options: A Guide to Local Middle Housing Regulations
- Making Room: Housing for a Changing America
- Re-Legalizing Middle Housing: A Model Act and Guide to Statewide Legislation
- The ABCs of ADUs
- Veterans Home Benefits Guide
AGING-FRIENDLY HOUSING
- Universal Design: An Introduction (2025)
- Video: Creating an Accessible Home (2025)
- Video: Helping Older Adults Safely Age in Place (2024)
- U.S. Census: "America Needs More Aging-Ready Homes" (2023)
- A Reader Sent Us Her Idea for a Community for Aging (2023)
- Readers Ideas for Creating Age-Friendly Homes and Communities (2023)
- Prioritizing Housing Over Parking (2021)
- Building an ADA-Compliant ADU (2017)
- Disrupt Aging by Rethinking Where We Live (2016)
- The Disrupt Aging Where We Live Checklist (2016)
- AirBnB Can Be a Key to Profitably Aging in Place (2016)
- Slideshow: Take a Tour of a Lifelong Home (2015)
- How to Encourage More Lifelong Housing (2015)
- How to Create a Handy Tools Display (2015)
INNOVATIVE IDEAS
- Increasing Housing Options in Rural Communities (2024)
- Hosting a ‘Casita’ Competition in Tucson (2023)
- Vermont Has a Plan for Creating More Housing (2023)
- Tiny Houses Can Help Reduce a Huge Affordable-Housing Shortage (2023)
- Video: Transforming a Motel Into Accessible, Temporary Housing (2022)
- Home Sweet "ADU" Homes (2022)
- Universal Design and Visitability Housing Certifications (2021)
- Universal Design and Livability (2021)
- Help Paying for Rent and Utilities in Philadelphia (2020)
- The Past and Future Visions for Aging in Place (2019)
- Skyler: A Future Vision for Aging in Place (2019)
- Rethinking What Makes a Great Roommate (2019)
- Rethinking Student Housing (2019)
- Housing for Grandparenting (2019)
- The AARP ‘House of Freedom’ (2019)
- Neighbors Provide Many Helping Hands (2019)
- Need a Trowel But Don’t Want to Buy One? (2019)
- Affordability First (2017)
- Disrupt Aging With ‘Green House’ Nursing Homes (2016)
- Two Houses in One for a Home Within a Home (2016)
- Improving Where and How We Live (2016)
COMMUNITIES
- Housing That's Home for People With (or Without) I/DD (2025)
- A Home of One's Own (2025)
- Parents Are Creating Communities for Their Grown Children With Special Needs (2021)
- How to Create a Residential Community for Adults With I/DD (2021)
- Designing Housing for People With I/DD (2021)
- Finding a 'Forever Home' for My Adult Son With Autism (2021)
- Housing for Intentional Living (2019)
- HIVE Buzzes with Talk About Age-Friendly Housing (2016)
- 20 Questions and Answers about Co-Housing (2016)
- An 'LGBT-Welcoming' Place to Call Home (2016)
- SAGECare Teaches Elder Care Providers How to Foster a Welcoming Community (2016)
- Tiny Houses Are Becoming a Big Deal (2015)
- Slideshow: Take a Tiny House Tour (2015)
RENOVATIONS AND REMODELING
- Repair Workshops for Residents of Mobile Home Parks (2023)
- Age-Friendly Improvements for Most Every Home Remodeling Project (2016)
- Remodeling a Home to Be a Lifelong Home (2015)
- Slideshow: A Home Remodeling Before and After (2015)
INSIGHTS
- Livable Lesson Video Series: Universal Design (2023)
- Jonathan Pacheco Bell on Neighborhood Land Trusts (2021)
- Eli Spevak, Kol Peterson and Elizabeth Decker on ADUs (2019)
- Dan Parolek on Missing Middle Housing (2016)
- Sarah Susanka on Small Housing for Boomers and Beyond (2015)
- Richard Duncan on Universal Design (2014)
