NEW YORK: Innovative housing plans aim to combat loneliness amongst elderly people by placing them on a busy street where they will share space with neighbours, school children and other groups.
Architects believe their building design – which reimagines the age-old concept of the ‘almshouse’ – will put older people at the heart of urban society and recognise their “immense importance”.
Planning permission has just been given for the building, which will be home to 90 people over 70…