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Livability Library: Economic Development

Links to articles, reports, case studies, surveys and more

FEATURED

Helping Businesses Engage With Kupuna

(That's Hawaiian for 'Older Adults.') Retailers are recognizing the need to be age-friendly. Learn More

10 Tips To Help Businesses Engage With Kupuna

INSPIRING IDEAS

Building Support for Code Reform (2020)

Trading Time for a Property-Tax Break (2018)

There's a Better Way: Providing Jobs for Homeless People (2017)

LOCAL EFFORTS

Boosting North Carolina's Main Street Communities (2023)

Solutions for Strengthening Rural Economies (2023)

10 Tips to Help Businesses Engage With Kupuna (2018)

Telecommuters Welcome (and Wanted) (2017)

Communities Are Embracing Development Near Transit (2017)

Where We Live: Opportunity chapter (2016)

FREE PUBLICATIONS

The American Rescue Plan and Older Adults (2021)

Helping Commercial Districts Manage and Respond to COVID-19 (2020)

AARP Roadmap to Livability Economic Development Workbook (2018)

The Livability Economy: People, Places and Prosperity (2015)

Livability Fact Sheet: Economic Development (2014)

Livability Fact Sheet: Revitalization Without Displacement (2014)

RESEARCH AND REPORTS

The Value of the 50-Plus (2020)

VIDEO

Livable Lesson: Commercial District Design (2021)

^{More economic development content can be found via the archives and landing pages for the AARP Community Challenge, the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities and AARP International's Equity by Design: Global Dialogue and Equity by Design: Principles in Action series.}

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