by James Fuccione | May 19, 2021 | News and Updates
MetroCommon2050 is Greater Boston’s next long-range regional plan. It’s a plan for all of the 101 cities and towns and countless neighborhoods of the region of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC). Through research and community engagement, MAPC...
by James Fuccione | May 19, 2021 | Data and Reports, News and Updates
A new toolkit developed by AARP Livable Communities and the Congress for the New Urbanism called Enabling Better Places: A Handbook for Improved Neighborhoods provides options for communities to consider as they identify and select small-scale, incremental policy...
by James Fuccione | May 12, 2021 | News and Updates
The Federal Communications Commission today (5/12) kicked off the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this program will make available up to $3.2 billion worth of consumer discounts on broadband services and equipment like computers and...
by James Fuccione | May 12, 2021 | Conferences, News and Updates
On Thursday, May 27th from 10:30 to 11:30 AM we will be holding a virtual celebration to recognize Older Americans Month and release the Massachusetts ReiMAgine Aging: Year Two Progress Report. Cohosted with the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, AARP Massachusetts,...
by James Fuccione | May 12, 2021 | Data and Reports
According to new findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging, nearly one in five older adults say their mental health has gotten worse since the pandemic began in March 2020, and an equal percentage say their sleep has suffered in that time too. More than one in...
