Low-income senior housing "Waitlists"

[officerripley]

Years ago I applied to many. I got exactly one interview and they said I needed to bring yet more documentation of my bank accounts, which I did not. Also, they didn't let people see the apartment until after acceptance! After this, I stopped applying except if I've been to the place and know I'd like to live there. By the way, I too am in CA, the Bay Area, where housing is scarce and ridiculously expensive. For the past 12 years I've been in a small studio in a sketchy neighborhood which is rent controlled and utilities included. So I am not that eager to move.

Yeah, it's all so sad. I heard not long ago that the average wait time for these kinds of places is about 8 years. (Which in my area probably means closer to 10 since the places like that in a nearby town burnt to the ground back in 2018, thus impacting our town too.)

 

[gruntlabor]

When ideas for the poor --like guarded communities of small structures with community laundry, bathing, food service and so forth are put forward, they are met with horror. "How dare you expect us to live like that?"
When outdated buildings are suggested as sanctuaries for the homeless, we hear, "We won't be mistreated like that"
When churches try to help, they are met with, "You suggest that we are immoral!"
When stores make donations to the poor, they are told, "You expect us to eat soft tomatoes and outdated products?"
It's like the everlasting question asked of women: What do you want?
What will be enough? And the answer is nothing will ever be enough.

**Give a mouse a cookie and he wants a glass of milk.**