Housing for the Elderly: A Report of Recommendations Made to the National Capital Housing Authority for Proposed Apartment Units for Low Income Elderly Occupants; December 1963 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Mildred Stenswick Howard

9780266866213: Housing for the Elderly: A Report of Recommendations Made to the National Capital Housing Authority for Proposed Apartment Units for Low Income Elderly Occupants; December 1963 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Housing for the Elderly: A Report of Recommendations Made to the National Capital Housing Authority for Proposed Apartment Units for Low Income Elderly Occupants; December 1963

The Public Housing Administration (pha), whose program is for the benefit of low-income families who need assistance in order to be adequately housed, has increased its efforts in behalf of the low-income elderly group. Recently, pha has liberalized the requirements for admission to low-rental units, so that more of the elderly can qualify for existing projects. Pha also is planning many new projects either exclusively for the elderly or with a high percentage of units for elderly occupancy.

In 1961, the National Capital Housing Authority (ncha), the local public housing authority serving the city of Washington, D.C., planned to build three housing projects in which the majority of units were one bedroom apartments designed especially for elderly occupants. Upon the instigation of the ncha, a request was made by the pha for the consultation services of the Clothing and Housing Research Division (ch) of the Agricultural Research Service at nearby Beltsville, Md. CH was asked specifically to help translate and apply results of their research on the housing requirements of rural families to the design of kitchens and other activity and storage areas in these urban apartments.

The ncha arranged for the CH researchers to visit 20 apartments in four existing projects, to discuss with the occupants the types and extent of household activities carried on and the kinds and numbers of possessions stored. One housing project was 25 years old; the others had been built more recently. Two were only 3 years old. The residents visited included 12 elderly couples and 8 single women.

The information gained from these visits was needed to determine whether the space standards developed by CH for activity and storage areas for rural housing could be adapted to the needs of the elderly in this metropolitan area. Also it was thought important to know, before formulating recommendations, what furnishings the occupants owned, their evaluations of their apartments, and what features they thought should be incorporated in apartment units for the elderly.

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