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Comment on Wanted: Housing Models that Reflect Reality by terry

terry — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:26:41 +0000

Hi Richard, You are right about shelters for women with children but there aren’t nearly enough of them. I don’t know what the statistics are but I am assuming that many women and children needing shelter don’t have access to one. I posted my earlier reply in response to both of your comments.

Comment on Wanted: Housing Models that Reflect Reality by terry

terry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:23:38 +0000

Thanks, Roger. I hope that you get a ton of responses. Yes, affordable financing seems to be the bottleneck that needs to be dislodged to make headway on this critical issue!

Comment on Wanted: Housing Models that Reflect Reality by terry

terry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:20:59 +0000

Thanks to both of you for your comments. I’m surprised that I didn’t make the connection that the foster care system played a big role in replacing orphanages. It seemed to me that that orphanages became obsolete around the time that birth control became widely available. Obviously, I have not studied this topic in depth. My goal is to make headway against our housing crisis.

Yes, thank God that there are foster homes, we need more of them. Some homes are good places for children and other homes are not. Some children are so emotionally scarred that they are difficult to place.

Affordable housing is a train wreck with millions of clueless parents raising children in very difficult circumstances. Finding workable solutions seems logical to me.

Comment on Wanted: Housing Models that Reflect Reality by Roger Willcox

Roger Willcox — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:10:44 +0000

Dear Terry:

This is my second try at leaving a reply. (I thought “mail” meant snail mail and my
first message was rejected and lost)

The key to affordable housing of all kinds is affordable financing. With today’s
interest rates for mortgages dipping below five percent, there is a potential to
get FHA Section 213 reactivated on a national level as a basis for financing housing cooperatives of all kinds based on acquiring vacant and troubled housing. Anyone with specific projects in mind and wanting more information can contact me at
willcoxr@juno.com. Roger Willcox, president emeritus, National Association of
Housing Cooperatives.

Comment on Wanted: Housing Models that Reflect Reality by Richard Adamson

Richard Adamson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:56:14 +0000

TE, I wondered about the orphanage remark, too. I can think of perhaps two reasons that we don’t see them them these days.

First, and thankfully, there are people willing to take such children into their homes and families. Obviously, there are millions of pitfalls, but it’s good such people are there. And the role of the foster parent has been recognized and institutionalized, minimizing the financial impact of taking a child in.

Second, I know that there are shelters for women with children. Women in intolerable situations can rescue themselves and their children, and are not forced to break up their families to save them. Such shelters deserve all of the support that they can get.

There’s much more to be said on these topics, but I am glad that there are people willing to help those who need.

Comment on Wanted: Housing Models that Reflect Reality by JKB

JKB — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:36:30 +0000

Lack of orphanages has nothing to do with birth control. I don’t see the connection. Birth Control has nothing to do with children that have lost their parents through death or other means. There are still plenty of children without adult family members to care for them in the foster care system, despite birth control.

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