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Handouts to the homeowners does not feel like the right call here
by jncfhnb 2y ago
Handouts to the homeowners does not feel like the right call here
- cyberlurker 2y agoSenior living centers are often atrocious and still can set people back over $10,000 a month. I think a program could be designed without being a handout. One option could be if you’re going into a government run senior living center you need to pass that money down to whoever was going to inherit it/receive it through donation. And that has to be a taxable event to cover the cost of the subsidy on senior living. People would hate that option because no one likes taxes but the private market is not getting us where we need to be. If people don’t like the option, no subsidy for them and they are free to figure out their own senior care. That money goes surprisingly fast.
- jncfhnb 2y agoAnd if the old people don’t have enough wealth to cover the subsidy via taxes that they would have paid anyway just later on their inheritances?
- FireBeyond 2y ago> Senior living centers are often atrocious and still can set people back over $10,000 a month. For "fun", most states publish nursing home reports. In the county I work in EMS, there are probably only two that have only either minor or no infractions. Every single other one has major / patient/resident risk infractions. Often around minimum staffing levels. Perhaps pay your CNAs above minimum wage, your LPNs above $20/hr, and so...
- blondie9x 2y agoI'm not talking about just senior living or senior care places. I'm talking about total independent just 55+ or 62+ senior apartments that have affordable rents available. There are very few of these and waiting lists are usually completely closed off and take 10+ years if your name is called at all.
- b112 2y agoAre you sure you a replying to the correct place? No one talked about handouts, just about building more senior style housing. Seniors can pay for that, especially after selling a house.
- jncfhnb 2y agoNo they’re talking about subsidizing senior living facilities
- micromacrofoot 2y agoboomers with houses have no incentives to move into them
- jncfhnb 2y agoAnd paying money to get them to leave their houses is a terrible policy
- fragmede 2y agounfortunately, since they own the homes, unless you want to take them from them by force, you'll have to give them some sort of incentive to give up their homes so no matter how much you structure it, it will amount to the same thing in order to get them to move.