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This 4 page paper discusses the problems facing older Americans with regard to housing, and suggests ways to help them. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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to overcome the negatives he sees in current policies with regard to this population segment. Discussion Danielss comments are extremely negative, but probably realistic, and boil down to one thing:
American governmental policy ignores the elderly because as a group they have little political influence. There are other factors of course, but mostly theyre ignored because nobody cares. This of
course ignores the fact that every human being will eventually be old and need some sort of assistance, but we are very good at ignoring reality. Danielss specific comments point
out that because housing policy is not standard and is developed and enforced at many different governmental levels, it is in effect a piecemeal effort with no efficient way of
applying it nationally. He writes, "Housing policy for the elderly and the non-elderly in the United States reflects both the weaknesses of the marketplace and the fragmentation of the American
policy process" (Daniels, p. 379). The fragmentation, as noted, is embodied in the fact that so many various agencies at all levels of government develop their own housing policies; in
fact, while most housing policy is developed at the national level, it is carried out at state and local levels, an invitation to disaster (Daniels). The "marketplace" deserves special
mention, though this analysis is overly simplistic. It has long been a core belief of conservatives that the ungoverned, unregulated free market is a panacea for all economic ills. Part
of the theory is that supply and demand and other forces will induce the market to "self-correct" so that goods and services will always be available to anyone who needs
them, at competitive prices. Everyone wins in this scenario: the companies find their customers who in turn get what they need at prices they can afford. Except of course this
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