Affordable Urban Housing for the Poor and Elderly

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A 10 page paper discussing the need for affordable housing; mixed use developments; and global implications of increased urbanization. The poor and elderly of the inner city continue to face many challenges, some of which appear to be insurmountable if left solely to the market to mitigate. There is a wealth of opportunity available to municipal governments to make their cities more affordable and more desirable for the working class and the elderly, and without crossing over into the area of the negative connotations that affordable housing has collected over the years. Bibliography lists 9 sources.