Senior Low-Income Housing in Savannah?

[KittyAtlanta]

Low income housing/low income senior housing is rented at 1/3 of a person's/family's income. Generally, all utilities are included. These accommodations usually have an average of 2 years on a waitlist. I visited one in Richmond Hill (only 1 year or so old) and they had a 3 year wait. The kicker is you must go through all the HUD red tape to get in. Wish I hadn't sold that house on Gordon Street.

[smarino]

Where we live (St Pete, Fl), most of the low income senior housing here is either funded by the county or charity religious groups like the Lutherans, Catholics or Methodists, so whoever is president would have no effect on this. There's a ton of them, as there should be in Florida, and the waiting lists can be up to a year. Many start at around $500 a month, and that's w/ all utilities and cable included. Some are available now, and looked quite nice when I took their tours. The other option is 55+ mobile home parks, which again are all over the place here. We went that route and bought a very nice fully furnished place for under $10,000. Lot rental is under $300 a month w/ free water and lawn maintenance, and there's a late night bus stop right near the front door.

This is all a really good thing, as many seniors get by on just social security monies that have not kept up w/ the cost of inflation, and their medicare payments are always going up and offering less. When we lived in Daytona Beach there was almost no low income senior housing except for the few HUD and Section 8 federally funded places, and they were old and just dumps. They also weren't restricted to just seniors, but had a lot of low income families w/ kids too. We've gone through that stage of our lives, and don't plan on living around that again, LOL! So just a change of city or county can make a big difference on this aspect of senior living. When I lived in Savannah, there didn't seem to be many if any 55+ mobile home parks, and few low income senior apartments. This is a great link below for 55+ mobile home parks across the US.

http://www.senior-retirement-living....0is%20required.

I came up w/ this for Savannah senior apartments

http://www.seniorhousingnet.com/seni...typ=12&ctyp=19

https://www.mercyhousing.org/GA-savannah-gardens-senior

The last link looks promising, but I can't remember what that neighborhood is like.