Los Angeles faces a growing housing challenge as seniors confront unaffordable rents, isolation, and car-dependent neighborhoods. Domestic Abundance reimagines aging in place through a distributed cooperative model that transforms single-family and multi-family homes into a network of shared care infrastructure. Aging homeowners can transfer their property to a community land trust, ensuring long-term affordable land stewardship. At the same time, they join the Care Cooperative, which manages the growing network of participating homes and oversees a time-based credit system inspired by Japan’s Fureai Kippu, where caregiving and maintenance generate equity. Instead of new construction, the project employs adaptive reuse and incremental retrofits to link existing homes into interdependent clusters of shared amenities and accessible pathways. This framework establishes a circular economy of care that recycles both built fabric and social value, where ownership is defined by stewardship rather than speculation, where community emerges through integrated aging in place, rather than through separated enclaves.
