Puget Sound region, Washington Many Lights is working to create Hope Lights, a multigenerational community where children, kinship and foster-to-adopt families, and seniors facing the challenges of aging live together in a supportive and well-bonded community. Status: In planning Website: http://manylights.org/
Spokane, WA Building Ohana is developing an intergenerational, intentional community in Spokane, Washington to harness the power of home and village to enhance the physical, social, and civic capacities of every resident ? including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities ? in the context of a caring and committed neighborhood of support. The Building Ohana …
New Orleans, Louisiana Since the War on Terror began in 2001, thousands of military families have experienced severe, debilitating wounds from combat or the traumatic loss of a loved one. Bastion is working to create an intergenerational community to support the unmet needs of Wounded Warriors returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their surviving families. …
Easthampton, MA The Treehouse Community is a mission driven community offering vital living opportunities and community connections for all ages. Designed to support families who are fostering and adopting children from the public foster care system, Treehouse is a caring, multi-generational neighborhood. The community includes twelve family homes with three, four or five bedrooms and …
Rantoul, Illinois Hope Meadows was designed to provide community support to families adopting children from foster care. It is the first intentional intergenerational neighborhood of its kind, where the gifts and talents of all residents contribute to the well-being of people of all ages. Status: Operational since May 1994 Website:? …
Portland, Oregon Bridge Meadows was developed to support foster-to-adopt and kinship families. It is now three years old and is at full capacity with children, families, and seniors. Status: Operational since June 2011 Website: bridgemeadows.org
Tampa, Florida New Life Village is creating an Intergenerational Community of Caring for older children and large sibling groups who would otherwise have little or no chance of being adopted together. At New Life Village, these children, their adoptive families, and the senior volunteers find new life and new opportunities. …
Genesis is a small, intergenerational community in Washington, DC, consisting of 27 affordable apartments for seniors, for young families transitioning out of foster care, and for other families. At Genesis, neighbors commit to supporting each other and the community. Everyone has value and everyone contributes, whatever their talents. Genesis neighbors regularly come together for large …
Children run through the lawn sprinklers in front of the Intergenerational Center on a summer day at Hope Meadows. Photo credit: Alex Harris A GHC is not an enclave or a campus. Like any healthy neighborhood, it functions best when it is integrated with its surroundings, both architecturally and socially. Blending in A GHC provides …
There are some well-established ways to create affordable housing and coordinated services, but conventional funding strategies can sometimes conflict with the goals of a GHC. Formal community development as practiced today gives priority to economic issues (job creation, housing affordability, etc.). To be sure, a community needs investment in order to develop. But to obtain …
