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Funding should be provided for homeowners to repair, modify, and make the residences of older homeowners with low incomes more energy-efficient.
Policymakers should take steps to foster housing stability during declared emergencies. Among the temporary measures they should consider are:
Occupational regulation should provide meaningful consumer health, safety, or financial well-being benefits. Policymakers should streamline licensing requirements where possible.
Policymakers should explore options for extending the affordability of rental housing units whose subsidies are set to expire. These include:
Policymakers should help voucher recipients secure appropriate housing. This includes:
Congress should modify the LIHTC program to enable greater flexibility in the development of housing projects for older adults.
Policymakers and researchers should study and put in place successful policies to keep housing costs affordable for existing residents, particularly in neighborhoods where housing costs are rising
Federal, state, and local policymakers should enact, monitor for compliance, and fully enforce laws prohibiting housing discrimination on the basis of lawful source of income, including use of a ho
Policymakers should establish requirements or provide incentives for universal design features to be incorporated into homes.
Policymakers and the private sector should implement Universal Mobility as a Service to expand access to transportation for everyone in the community.