Mixed Age Communities

This Infrastructure Week, We Can’t Forget About Residential Infrastructure

by Service Line Warranty Program | May 12, 2023 | Customer Testimonials, Financial Shock, Home Maintenance, Infographics, Lead in Water, Mixed Age Communities, NLC SLWP, Press Releases, Public-Private Partnerships, Service Line Responsibilities, ServLine, Water Loss

Norwalk, Connecticut – [DATE] – Every year during the third week of May – National Infrastructure Week – a little extra attention gets paid to the state of America’s infrastructure. This includes everything from airports, bridges and roads to drinking water,...

Lead Service Line Replacement Programs Made More Complex by Incomplete Data

by Bill Eller | Mar 14, 2022 | Inflow & Infiltration, Infrastructure, Intergenerational Communities, Lead in Water, Millennials, Mixed Age Communities, Service Line Responsibilities

We don’t know how many lead service lines remain in service, and estimates vary by the millions. The American Water Works Association estimated that there are more than 6 million lead service lines across the country, but other sources put the number closer to 9...

Community Garden Saved a Neighborhood and May Save an Entire City

by Bill Eller | Oct 22, 2019 | Intergenerational Communities, Mixed Age Communities

Christie Myers, Managing Director of Opportunity Dallas, shares the story of a public-private partnership to help address homelessness, including a community garden. Segregated since the Jim Crow era, Dallas’ Bonton neighborhood, consisting of almost solely...

Take Over Your Block: An Interview With Better Block Foundation

by Bill Eller | Jul 23, 2019 | Florida, ICMA, Intergenerational Communities, Large Cities, Maryland, Michigan, Millennials, Mixed Age Communities, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas

The latest NLC housing report addresses the importance of neighborhood revitalization. Christie Myers, Managing Director of Opportunity Dallas, interviewed Krista Nightengale, Managing Director of Better Block Foundation, about the great work they are doing to build...

National League of Cities (NLC) 2019 Housing Report

by Bill Eller | Jul 19, 2019 | Education, Infrastructure, Intergenerational Communities, Mixed Age Communities

Earlier this month the National League of Cities (NLC) released a comprehensive affordable housing report entitled "Homeward Bound: The Road to Affordable Housing" Rising home prices and stagnant wages have put tremendous strain on housing markets across the country....

Aging in Place is Vital for the Growth and Development of Communities

by Bill Eller | Jun 18, 2019 | Intergenerational Communities, Mixed Age Communities, Texas

Christie Myers, former Managing Director of Opportunity Dallas, addressed the importance of aging in place to seniors and the community as a whole. On a weekly basis, I am confronted with conversations involving seniors, gently raising their hands from the back row,...

Quality of Life of Citizens Priority for City Officials

by Bill Eller | Jan 9, 2019 | ICMA, Intergenerational Communities, Millennials, Mixed Age Communities, New York

As we begin 2019 and think about the changes we want in our own lives, we also should be thinking about the changes in our communities. A city is more than infrastructure and buildings, codes and taxes. A city is its residents, and the best way to retain and attract...

NLC Service Line Warranty Program Gives Employees A Day Off To Help Kids Play

by Service Line Warranty Program | Oct 8, 2018 | Intergenerational Communities, Mixed Age Communities, Pennsylvania, Public-Private Partnerships

More than a dozen NLC Service Line Warranty Program Utility Service Partners by HomeServe employees joined more than 200 other local business people and Seneca Valley Schools pupils and volunteered their time to help re-build an 18-year-old playground, transforming it...

Six Tips To Help Residents Age In Place

by Summer Minger | Apr 25, 2018 | California, Frozen Pipes, Georgia, Home Maintenance, Intergenerational Communities, Kansas, Mixed Age Communities, New York

Since Jan. 1, 2011, 10,000 Baby Boomers are eligible to retire daily, and Americans 65 and older will make up 19 percent of the population by 2030. Many of those Baby Boomers would like to stay in their own homes as they age – a trend called “aging in place” – born of...

Don’t Let Your Residents Be Left Out In The Cold

by Summer Minger | Jan 12, 2018 | Education, Financial Shock, Florida, Georgia, ICMA, Intergenerational Communities, Louisiana, Millennials, Mixed Age Communities, Service Line Myths, Service Line Responsibilities

The recent bomb cyclone has played havoc across the country, from frigid flooding in the Northeast to abnormally low temperatures and snowfall in the south. And as the temperatures sank, water line breaks cropped up. Municipalities everywhere have been scrambling to...

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