"Seniors in affordable apartments act as surrogate grandparents for children in rent-assisted units designed for families with multiple adopted children....
"Each day for the next 16 years, more than 10,000 American baby boomers will turn 65. Stricken by the Great Recession, many of them cannot afford to pay market rents for independent housing or institutional care, and some prefer to live in age-diverse communities....
In Portland, Oregon, a nonprofit organization has built an urban solution that addresses the problem of age segregation while brightening the prospects of families who adopt children out of the foster care system....
"Today, more than 400,000 children are in foster care in the United States....
"On the two-acre (0.8 ha) site of the former John Ball Elementary School in the Portsmouth neighborhood of north Portland, Bridge Meadows has built a housing complex bearing its name that includes nine four-bedroom houses for families who adopt at least three foster children...."
http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Aug/MachtIntergenerational
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