Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: daniel1212

Gonna need to be a lot of Golden Girl living situations. No way can a typical single senior afford $1000/month rent, like the one in the story who then got into Section 8 housing.


4 posted on 02/23/2018 7:20:24 AM PST by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: GnuThere; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; kinsman redeemer; BlueDragon; metmom; boatbums; ...
Gonna need to be a lot of Golden Girl living situations. No way can a typical single senior afford $1000/month rent, like the one in the story who then got into Section 8 housing.

Getting accepted for Sect. 8 is not the same as getting into a Sect. 8 apartment, while being om SS means the senior can move anywhere in the US without losing that income. Thus she could escape CA for a lower cost apt, such as

Wichita, Kansas: $470

What state is the lowest cost of living?
Each state is ranked by its cost of living index, as of the first quarter of 2014.
  • Arkansas. Cost of Living Index: 92.5. ...
  • Iowa. Cost of Living Index: 92.5. ...
  • Alabama. Cost of Living Index: 92.4. ...
  • Nebraska. Cost of Living Index: 91.7. ...
  • Kansas. Cost of Living Index: 91.3. ...
  • Indiana. Cost of Living Index: 90.7. ...
  • Oklahoma. ...
  • Kentucky.

But being where God wants you to be, as an instrument of His grace and Truth, as one bought by the sinless shed blood of the Son of God (see tag), is most important, and God will provided what is needed to do that work, if we see 1st His kingdom and righteousness, and repent for our failures to do so as we should. .

5 posted on 02/23/2018 7:38:20 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: GnuThere

“Gonna need to be a lot of Golden Girl living situations. No way can a typical single senior afford $1000/month rent, like the one in the story who then got into Section 8 housing.“

It is VERY expensive to live single.


15 posted on 02/23/2018 9:34:33 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: GnuThere
Roberta Gordon never thought she’d still be alive at age 76.
I had a miniature dachshund who loved running around the living room. 
One day, she took a leap and for the first time in her life
landed on the commanding heights of the couch. 
She looked stunned as she surveyed the lower realms
of the room, and had no idea what to do next.

When I reached the lofty age of 70, it was with a sense of
bewilderment because like the author of this piece,
I really hadn't planned to be alive and retired
at this point, expecting to remain in the workforce
until I fell over dead.

Age discrimination in hiring that followed my
exit from the collapsing photo industry put
paid to that notion.
she didn’t have a steady job that paid into Social Security
A lifetime of poor choices that sound like she had no
idea what to do with herself from an early age.  Maybe,
in retrospect, the smartest thing I ever did was
to join the US military.  It gave me time to find
what I thought I liked to do and, more importantly,
the discipline to work hard at whatever I chose.
A few months later, she was much more stable. Why?
She’d gotten off a wait list and been accepted into
the housing-voucher program known as Section 8
Rather than get out of California for someplace
affordable to live, she racked up credit card
debt to pay the rent.  I'm sorry , lady,
but not only is life unfair, but being
uneducated, undisciplined, and unfortunate
guarantees an ending you wouldn't
have wanted.


40 posted on 02/23/2018 2:52:34 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson