Affordable homes for seniors & veterans · Flint, MI

Everybody deserves a good place to grow old.

A better place for the next chapter.

Second Season Living Initiative builds affordable, fully accessible homes for seniors and veterans in Flint — and the kind of close-knit community that makes the later years fuller, not lonelier.

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Rooted in Flint, Michigan

Affordable•Dignified•Sustainable•Community•Comfort•Connection

The mission

Too many people who built this city can’t afford to grow old in it.

Seniors on fixed incomes and veterans who served get quietly priced out of anywhere safe, accessible, and their own. The choices left are rarely dignified, and almost never feel like home.

Second Season Living builds the answer — homes that are genuinely affordable and made for aging in place, set inside a community designed to keep people connected instead of isolated. Somewhere the next chapter is something to look forward to.

Not a facility. Not a waiting room. A neighborhood — with your own front door, your own kitchen, and neighbors who know your name.

The homes

Three promises built into every one.

Built for dignity

Every home is affordable and fully accessible — single-floor living, wide doorways, zero-threshold entries, and a real kitchen and laundry of your own.

A community, not a complex

Homes gather around a shared community center — a place to eat together, take a class, or just not be alone. Elders here have plenty to give back, too: mentorship, a hand, a story.

Rooted in Flint, built to last

Durably and sustainably built, right here at home — meant to stand and serve for the long haul, not the short term.

The first neighborhood · Coming soon

It starts with ten homes on four and a half acres.

Here’s the first Second Season community, taking shape in Flint — from empty lot to front porches.

Aerial view of the empty 4.4-acre site in Flint, bordered by Oxley Drive, Sussex Drive, West Pierson Road, and Cloverlawn Drive — The site today — 4.4 acres at Sussex Drive & West Pierson Road, Flint.

Site plan of ten residential units arranged around a 1,500 square foot community center, with the community center floor plan and interior renderings — The master plan — ten homes around a 1,500 sq ft community center, 32 parking spaces.

Aerial rendering of the completed ten-unit community with landscaped grounds and community center — The community, realized.

Unit design board for the 640 square foot home: floor plan, exterior, living room, bedroom, accessible bathroom, and specifications — The home — a full, accessible one-bedroom, 640 sq ft.

1 bed / 1 bathOpen-concept livingFull kitchenIn-unit laundry36″ doors & lever handlesZero-threshold entryEnergy efficientMini-split HVAC

Concept renderings — final design subject to change

Get involved

Home gets built by more than one pair of hands.

However you’re able to show up — a gift, a partnership, or simply following along — there’s a place for you in this.

Give

Your gift puts roofs over the heads of seniors and veterans who’ve earned a dignified place to land. Every dollar builds.

Donate

Partner

Funders, veterans’ organizations, builders, and city partners — if your work touches housing or seniors in Flint, let’s build together.

Start a conversation

Follow along

Join the list and watch the first homes rise. No noise — just the milestones that matter.

Follow the build