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too. New York law, for example, now requires 10% of all state-aided housing space to be set aside for senior citizens. There are, of course, complications. People in general are only beginning to get over a strong distaste for having anything that could be called an "old-folks' home" too near their own. But acceptance is coming, however slowly. The town of Bedford, in Westchester County, New York, has not only revised its zoning law to allow the building of Fellowship Hall, a 68-unit garden-apartment development for the elderly, but showered down with a 50% property-tax abatement. Committees, councils, welfare associations, and church groups in densely populated metropolitan areas across the nation are working on the problem of where—and how—the parents of their largely suburban populations are going to live. Much of this effort is on a countywide basis, from Bergen County in New Jersey, clear across to Los Angeles County, California; Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and the Bay region around San Francisco afford examples of concerted metropolitan-area efforts to come up with some answers. The needs of senior citizens in greater Detroit have been the subject of extensive research by the University of Michigan, with cooperation from authorities and agencies in the cities and towns affected. The Welfare Council of metropolitan Chicago is notable for its efforts in behalf of the elderly. Under all this pressure and persuasion—and a growing realization of the facts—many suburban communities are awakening to the need for a reasonable amount of low-rent housing within their borders. There are other advantages besides taking care of senior citizens: 12 out of 13 school superintendents in Westchester County, New York, assert that lack of moderately priced housing is a major difficulty in recruitment of good teachers. New construction isn't the only answer. Remodeling of large old houses for multifamily use is being encouraged in some places, thus making use of soundly built homes that are just too big to be kept up in proper shape on a one-family basis by aging owners. In newer areas, preplanning for a proportion of old-age housing is finding favor. A report of the New Jersey Old Age Study Commission predicts that from now on "there will be no community in which the needs of the elderly are not reckoned with in a fair share of the building which is done. Not only will dwelling units be affected; steep flights of steps to church auditoriums will be eliminated; high curbstones at street corners will be replaced by gently sloping ramps; grab bars may well become standard equipment in all public toilets; shops will provide places for customers to be seated, with alcoves for rest on every floor."

Cottages for work and recreation are included in Miami's new Donn Gardens housing development for seniors.

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