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Leisurevilles are popping up all over the United States. Age-segregated housing is a phenomenon that’s growing bigger by the day, despite the housing crisis. A quarter-million more Americans are expected to move into age-segregated communities this year, and an estimated 100,000 housing units in dozens of new communities are being built to accommodate them. In the next decade or so, more than 12 million Americans are expected to opt for age-segregated housing. With the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, demographics are definitely in the developers’ favor: in five years, there will be 85 million people aged 55 or older (the entry age for age-segregation) or roughly one-in-four Americans. Age-segregated housing remains the fastest growing segment of the U.S. housing market. And age-segregated communities aren’t just a Sun-Belt phenomenon—the majority of them are now located in northern states like Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.

Check out the following links for more information. You can also visit my blog: Leisureville USA, for frequent updates.

Resources for Seniors

AARP
www.aarp.org

Social Security
www.socialsecurity.gov

The Social Security Network
www.socsec.org

Senior Net
www.seniornet.org

National Academy on an Aging Society
www.agingsociety.org

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
www.aahsa.org

National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
www.preventelderabuse.org

National Center on Elder Abuse
www.ncea.aoa.gov

Grandparents as Parents
www.grandparentsasparents.org

AARP: Help for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
www.aarp.org/families/grandparents/raising_grandchild/

Elderhostel
www.elderhostel.org/

U.S. Government senior resources
www.usa.gov/Topics/Seniors.shtml


Re-Engage and Make the World a Better Place

Civic Ventures
www.civicventures.org

The Treehouse Foundation
www.treehousecommunities.org

Generations Together
www.generationstogether.org

Generations of Hope
www.generationsofhope.org

RespectAbility (National Council on Aging)
www.respectability.org

Reinventing Aging (Harvard and MetLife)
www.reinventingaging.org

Generations United
www.gu.org

The Finance Project
www.financeproject.org


Sustainable Communities

The E. F. Schumacher Society
www.schumachersociety.org

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
www.livingeconomies.org

The Orion Society
www.orionsociety.org

The Nature Conservancy
www.nature.org

The Institute for Sustainable Communities
www.iscvt.org

James Howard Kunstler
www.kunstler.com

Congress for the New Urbanism
www.cnu.org


Housing Discrimination/Children’s Rights

Children’s Defense Fund
www.childrensdefense.org

National Fair Housing Alliance
www.nationalfairhousing.org

Fair Housing Law
www.fairhousinglaw.org

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
www.hud.gov


Baby Boomers

U.S. Census Bureau
www.census.gov

Boomers
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer

U.S. National Debt Clock
www.brillig.com/debt_clock


The Housing Industry

The National Association of Homebuilders
www.nahb.org

The 50+ Housing Council
www.nahb.org


Regarding Communities I Visited in Leisureville

Florida:

The Villages, Fla.
www.thevillages.com

Property Owner’s Association (The Villages)
www.poa4us.org

The Villages Daily Sun
www.thevillagesdailysun.com

The Villages “government”
www.districtgov.org

Sumter County, Fla
www.sumtercountyfl.gov

St. Johns River Water Management District
www.sjrwmd.com

Southwest Florida Water Management District
www.swfwmd.state.fl.us

Celebration, Fla
www.celebration.fl.us

Arizona:

Sun City, Az
www.suncityaz.org

Sun City West
www.suncitywest.org

Sun Cities Area Historical Society
www.scazhistory.org

Youngtown, Az
www.youngtownaz.org

Anthem, Az
www.onlineatanthem.com


Other Communities/Trends:

Ave Maria (Catholic)
www.avemaria.com

Luma Living (Mexico)
www.lumaliving.com

Rainbow Vision Properties (LGBT)
www.rainbowvisionprop.com

Gay & Lesbian Association of Retiring Persons, Inc.
www.gaylesbianretiring.org

The Gay Retirement Guide
www.gayretirementguide.com

International Gay Rodeo Association
www.igra.com

Del Webb
www.activeadult.com


Other Things I Mention in Leisureville

Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin (we reap what we sew)
www.harrychapin.com/music/cats.shtml

Biosphere II (failed utopia)
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

The Shakers (failing to plan for the future…)
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers


Books I Recommend that Discuss Critical Topics Raised in Leisureville

Fortress America by Edward J. Blakely

Prime Time by Marc Freedman

Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler

Suburban Nation by DPZ

Privatopia by Evan McKenzie

I’ll Be Short by Robert Reich

 

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