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Learn More about Leisureville
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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