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Anyone else affected by the Low Income Senior Housing Crisis?

Posted by carolee888 @carolee888, Jun 2, 2022

Are any of you effected by the lack of affordable housing like we are, We want to move out of Texas. There is a two to three year wait list for our retirement apartment and we will find out in October about how much the rent will go up. More worried this year becase our set of buildings has been recently been bought. I have read frightening stories of new managers wanting twice the rent, other places being closed for remodling and then high rent prices.

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carolee888 | @carolee888 | Jul 27, 2022
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@princessd

I applied for Senior Housing. There was a very long waiting list. However, they called me a week later. Everyone on the list had already found a place, so I got a one bedroom apartment for $540. They said because they’d raised the qualification income, so I got in! The apartments are one level. Just 35 apartments! I’m in Alabama! I’m 73.

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That rent is amazing!! I wish you much happiness!

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notmoff | @notmoff | Jul 27, 2022

I'm one of those irresponsible seniors who has not planned for senior housing, thinking that with my poor health, I'd die early. But living cautiously, I've made it to 80. I hope this thread inspires me to take action.

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Jul 27, 2022
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@notmoff

I'm one of those irresponsible seniors who has not planned for senior housing, thinking that with my poor health, I'd die early. But living cautiously, I've made it to 80. I hope this thread inspires me to take action.

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What do you think your first step will be? Are you in your own home, apartment or townhome?
Sue

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notmoff | @notmoff | Jul 27, 2022
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@sueinmn

What do you think your first step will be? Are you in your own home, apartment or townhome?
Sue

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Thanks for the encouragement volunteer mentor Sue. I need to create time by decreasing my time spent reading about things out of my control - such as Jan 6 hearings and local politics/involvement at my small condominium home.
Then I need to re-cycle all the paper I've accumulated about these interests - now history.
Then I need to organize for starting a search for something local - the only place I know.

Or I need to stop extending my life with my healthy habits.

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Jul 27, 2022
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@notmoff

Thanks for the encouragement volunteer mentor Sue. I need to create time by decreasing my time spent reading about things out of my control - such as Jan 6 hearings and local politics/involvement at my small condominium home.
Then I need to re-cycle all the paper I've accumulated about these interests - now history.
Then I need to organize for starting a search for something local - the only place I know.

Or I need to stop extending my life with my healthy habits.

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I can assure you that your collection of paper on your interests is not uncommon and if it fits in your condo it isn't insurmountable!
My 94 yo cousin died last winter, and she had been sharing just her genealogy paperwork with my brother for several years. Other than a small box of very old original documentsand books, he has reduced the rest to a single flash drive, giving a copy to each of us who is interested. He declined the offer of all her French books (as the last family member of our generation still fluent) as well as a 50 year collection of material on her other interest, Lebanon and it's recent history & politics, (her husband's homeland.) So her kids are left to dispose of 2 bedrooms full of books and papers, as well as all her other belongings.
My Mom, on the other hand, reduced her worldly possessions from 1500 square feet to an efficiency apartment in the last 5 years of her life. Most of the remaining possessions of any material or sentimental value were designated for a specific child or grandchild. The final clearing up was so easy! With that example, I am working about 2-3 hours a week to reduce my store of treasures, paper and books. I actually ,am enjoying have spaces in my shelves and closets.
Are you ready to spend just one hour a week getting rid of?
Sue

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