Reply #16: Cooperatives and communities -- YES! Great!

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Boarding houses are really an insult to older women who have worked hard all their lives, and who have been successful and maintained fine living quarters.

I think what you're missing is that when women like "Jessica" and "Joyce" and "Jackie" become disabled and unable to work, they may only receive a fraction of what it costs to rent a reasonable apartment. They don't need "boarding" and being shoved into a small room, and kept on a silly schedule that only benefits the boarding house... they are capable, independent women who are now simply unable to afford the market rates of decent apartments. Either we need to raise the level of Disabilty they get so that they can afford to rent a market apartment, or there needs to be low-income apartments available in numbers to house everyone. Actually, the first alternative would be the best!

Why should older women lose EVERYTHING they have, and have to squeeze into one room, when having an apartment is doable, if we only make it happen??? They've already lost enough, as evidenced by both Jessica and Joyce.