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Originally Posted by Glowing Horizon
Your comment about the inability to staff residential care facilities is valid & sparked another thought for me. Often marrying two needs can solve two big problems at the same time. Low-paid young people also cannot find affordable housing. An innovative solution might be to convert, for example, the 1st floor into low-cost (or free?) housing for workers while the upper floors of a residential care facility remained for only seniors. Electronic key cards can easily restrict movement. Win-win.
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I don't think anyone would want to live in the same residential home they work in. You'd be the first people they'd rely on to handle emergencies even on your day off. Your movements would be under constant scrutiny. Every minute of your life would be regulated. You'd basically be relegated to a 24/7 on-call dormitory assistant.
And what kind of people would you WANT having that kind of authority? I wouldn't want to give the responsibility to anyone who'd be interested in living in a residential care facility. I'd be too suspicious in wondering what was wrong with them.
On the other hand -
Perhaps if care facilities in cooperation with The Villages LLC built one of those kinds of Villages exclusive to medical employees, that'd be awesome. Maybe 20 family-only (minimum two adults with minimum 1 child any age) houses and a few apartment buildings with 8-10 units each, with studio, one bedroom, and 2 bedroom apartments and a covered parking area. The new medical village could be exclusive to all medical facility employees, giving a discount to nurses, aides, physical therapists, janitors, cafeteria workers. As long as they work full time in a medical facility in the area, they would qualify to live in one of these lower-rent, but quality homes or apartments. None of these homes would be for sale, they would all be rentals. That way if someone quits their medical employment job and starts selling Amway or decides to run an automotive repair shop instead, they could be kicked out and room made for another medical employee.