Senior Living Low Income Apartments

dusty

dusty

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I know here has been talk here before re senior low income apartment living. I have noticed that there are several of us living in these apts and several people looking for them.

Due to a new complex opened a year ago almost across the street from here, there are several openings here and I think 1 or 2 in the new place. I spoke with our manager today and he indicated there were several here open. I am not advocating either place, just giving info to everybody.

If anyone wants info I will put it here if it's ok with admin.
 

In the uk years ago... everyone was able to put their name down for low income housing (council housing)...and almost everybody when I was a kid lived in Council housing. They were nice homes, some were houses, some apartments, ...

Margaret thatcher came to power, and she passed a law saying people could buy their council housing , at a vastly reduced price.. so many people did.. millions in fact... but that left a huge gap in the council housing sections , barely any new houses were built to cover for the loss of the sold ones..

Then people bought them to rent out at high rents.. and ultimately all these years later, there's very, very little council housing.. and those who cannot afford to buy their own property are stuck in the private rental section.. with horrendously high rents with sub standard properties in many cases

Back when my daughter, who is 49 tomorrow.. first left school... I told her as many people did with their children , to put her name down on the council waiting list, just as a security for the future..in case for any reason she couldn't afford a home of her own.
..and we basically forgot all about it..

At 23 she bought her first house..... a few years later she flipped and sold & bought a bigger house, and she did this over and over the next 10 years...

When she was 35, she got a letter from the council offering her a ''property''.... it was a Bed-sit.. One room... in a shared house.. after being on the waiting list for 17 years...

Of course she took her name off the list then.. but the point is if she had been genuinely in need of low income housing, she would have waited 17 years just to be offered a single room....

This is how bad the housing situation is in the UK.. and much worse now 30 years after my DD registered for it...

Today I'm told that unless you're a vulnerable adult, then you have absolutely no chance of a low income property if you are a single person...
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
About the long waiting lists to get into a low income apartment. I put my name for one in 2018, when I was ill.
Well, it's 7 rears later and the phone hasn't rung......
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The wait lists are definitely long. Too long.

But for your or other readers here, I will add the general info that for many or all of the wait lists, now;
one needs to keep up contact with them, at certain times each year, in order to not be dropped from the wait list.
(In the USA)

The goal is not to harm people on it; it's because many people that get onto it, are no longer wanting the opening, even 1 year later, or sometime during the wait.
They've moved away, or are living in a facility, or are not in the area, any longer, or their circumstances have changed.

The goal of keeping the waitlist current, is to have people actively needing and still wanting the apartment openings.

I dont know how much info they need, to keep a person/family on it. Whether it's just to confirm that your contact info has not changed, or if they want to recheck your eligibility , I dont know.
Just general info, for people to be aware of and keep in mind.
(Again, this is USA)

If you are on a waitlist and still need the housing, then find out what they require in order to stay on it.

I'm not offering any opinion on whether this common policy is good or bad, or fair or not, I am just informing people that it exists.
(Don't sit and wait for the call; re-contact them periodically while waiting.)
 
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officerripley said:
I'm curious too; there are waiting lists for any, and I mean any, kind of housing around here, even apartments in the worst section of town where the drug dealers live.
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It's a regular medium to low income area by a shopping center. There is crime, mostly drug dealing but it's pretty safe around here. I don't have any problems walking around at night. I have been in the buildings visiting people and they modern, safe and secure and a few more are being built right now.
 

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