Institutional thinking from Inclusive Living International, exploring the strategic shift from accessibility as a retrofit to foresight as a real estate principle, the global demographics behind it, and the methodology that underpins ILS certification.
Accessibility certifies an existing barrier and corrects it. Foresight, by contrast, certifies that no barrier was ever built. The parallel with LEED is instructive: from cost objection to market premium in less than two decades.
ReadBetween 2015 and 2050 the world’s population over 60 nearly doubles, from 12% to 22% of the total. By 2030, one in six people globally will be 60 or older. The implications for real estate value are not hypothetical.
ReadILI does not operate as a single-product institution. Certification, technical advisory and home adaptation share a methodological backbone refined over more than a decade across thousands of homes and institutional spaces.
ReadThe criteria of ILS are grounded in ADA, ISO 21542 and ANSI A117.1, and extended through a proprietary internal manual. A look at how the methodology is structured, what it covers, and what it deliberately does not.
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