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April 19 - May 26, 2018
The hitch is that they face strong head winds on Capitol Hill. Budget cuts and changing priorities have led to reduced federal funding for vouchers and other housing programs. In fact, housing assistance currently serves only 24 percent, or about one out of four, of the nineteen million eligible households.64
Housing
the single biggest expense in our “unretirement,”
over fifty have already developed at least one chronic health condition or had a major health event. In our late fifties and early sixties, it’s not too soon to be thinking about whether our current living situations can meet our needs as we age and about how to make and pay for needed modifications (if we decide that that’s the direction we
households. I get it. Money is tight. Thinking
famine world of contract work, trying to pay high fixed housing costs with wages that are unreliable and bouncing all over the place. Or we’re on fixed incomes, making a fraction of what we used to make, with our housing costs taking big bites out of our money.
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ducks that have to be in a row for it to work.
rent-to-buy programs can give residents opportunities to build up equity over time. Again, there is no one solution. Tiny houses are just one of many options we can consider.
Take a tour of Ms. Gypsy Soul’s house here: (http://msgypsysoul.com/video-2/). I’ve looked at hundreds of tiny houses now, and there really is something for every budget and lifestyle preference.
We all remember visiting that elderly relative stuck in some drab, homogenized building with fluorescent lighting, weird hospital smells, and institutionalized food. We definitely don’t want that for ourselves.
Grandma Alice
that there appear to be very few people of color.
was one of about six people of color among approximately 450 attendees. Cohousing advocates and critics
In a very thoughtful article on cohousing and ethnic and racial diversity, Zev Paiss, Director of Project Development for Support Financial Services, and former founding Executive Director of The Cohousing Network, talks candidly about the issues, and offers some thoughts on a way forward. You can read it here: (http://www.ic.org/wiki/desire-diversity-cohousing-per-spective/
