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Joe Coughlin at 2008 Enterprise Community Conference November 21, 2008 AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin was a featured speaker at the 2008 Enterprise Community Conference on November 19. In collaboration with AARP’s Livable Communities initiative, Joe Coughlin outlined the AgeLab’s research vision to integrate smart technologies into public and affordable housing. His talk, “Community & Affordable Housing as Platforms of Aging Services Innovation” included projections indicating that an additional 730,000 housing units will be needed to meet the needs of low income and poor older Americans by 2020. Coughlin stated that there is an opportunity to re-envision housing as a platform for services innovation--enabling public/private partnerships to creatively develop and efficiently deliver health, mobility, nutrition and social services to low-income and poor older Americans.