A Blind System toward the elderly: A need for dignifying the life of our veterans.

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This is the way a USA system works regarding housing: A daughter has an apartment funded by a housing department in Massachusetts. She has her father for few months living with her because he doesn't have any other place to go. He has several health issues, including heart problems and was harmed by a stroke. So staying in a shelter would not be the best place for him to live. He is more than 70 years old. The landlord learns that he has been staying there. What the Housing system does? Informing the daughter that she will loose her housing privileges because her frail father is living there, and letting the father know that they can give him housing in a town far away where he doesn't even know anybody. What a shame.

The Executive Director of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA), replied to me on Facebook  an interesting message which I am quoting here:

          "We at MHSA tend to agree with you. If we are serious about ending homelessness and the  

            housing crisis that engenders it, we need to build greater flexibility into the system. Although 

            public housing can never be totally open, greater flexibility would result in greater savings.    

            Resources need to be targeted toward family members assisting family members rather than       

            creating expensive emergency responses. Thanks for weighing in."

It is imperative to advocate for those in need.  We need to make sure the the ones working for section 8, Housing, etc. understand that it is a lot better when families are trying to maintain their elderly parents with them. They must make an exception for these cases.  At least to let the elderly parents to stay with a family member without making it a big deal if that daughter or son is just wanting to care fro his/her father or mother until the parents are able to get an apartment appropriate for them in the same area their kids are.

Our elderly community spend a lot of time alone: sometimes with a desire to just have breakfast or lunch in a little dinner accompanied by somebody who cares.  They have done their part working hard all their lives for the "System" to make them feel miserable.

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