74 - Friday, September 9, 1988 - North Shore News

IREAL HISTATE

Housing challenge for the ‘90s:

keeping seniors independent

THERE IS a growing de-
mand for new options in
nousing and related services
that will allow seniors to
remain independent for as

long as possible and avoid’

institutional care.

“There is, in fact, an in-
creasing view that it would
be better if we take the ser-
vices to the people rather
than bring the people to the
services,’ says Hon. Stewart
McInnes, minister of public
works and minister respon-
sible for Canada Mortgage
and Housing.

“That thrust seems to be
common throughout the
world right now. Nearly
every western country is
looking at that and certainly
Many provinces as well as
the federal department of
health and welfare are taking
a hard look at this approach
as well.”’

This will be one of the
topics that will be discussed
at Canada’s first-ever na-
tional conference on housing
options for older Canadians,
to be held in Halifax Oct.
17-20.

Details are available at
CMHC offices across
Canada or by calling the
conference secretariat in Ot-
tawa at 613-748-2895,

The conference, sponsored
by CMHC, a pioneer and
leader in developing kousing
for Canadians for 42 years,
hopes to draw together
Ienders, developers, builders,

consumers and health care
professionals to explore new
housing vptions for seniors
— and the services needed to
support these options.

“One of the things we
hope to do is make the peo-
ple who are actually involved
in delivering and managing
housing as well as develop-
ing policy related to housing
aware of the options that
could be available in the
future.

‘We have an obligation,
as a government, to ensure
that the private sector is
responding and, if ne, to
determine why it isn’t. Fi-
nancing is a good example.
Primarily, it should come
from the private sector. We
can assist those imost in
need.””

McInnes noted that there
are a great many stumbling
blocks in the curre::t regula-
tory environment tu certain

types of accommodat:on, the’

types of services being
delivered as well as certain
financial mechanisms that
could be made available.

“We want to identify
these things and we hope
that at the end of the con-
ference the people who are
there will develop an
understanding about the
co-ordinated actions that
need to be taken.

“First, however, we want
this group to get a feel for
where the most promising
options lie — particularly in

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terms of making good hous-
ing accessible and affordable
to a much wider range of
our seniors’ population.

“Obviously,”? he added,
“something has to change.
At present, it would be very
difficult to get some of the
options accepted within ex-
isting municipal and plann-
ing regulations.”’

“There are also some im-
pediments in terms of
jurisdictional barriers but
these, too, will be overcome
as the key players realize
how crucial it is for them to
work together to develop
joint actions.”’

Response to the con-
ference has been extremely
positive, he says. The seniors
file is recognized as the most
significant socio-economic
and demographic happening
since the baby boom. The
private sector has done its
own survey and knows that a
big chunk of its business in
the future will be, in fact,
catering to this market,

“T hope that people will
go away from the conference
realizing that there are op-
portunities for new forms of
accommodation... for mak-
ing better use of existing
housing stock... for new fi-
nancial mechanisms... to get
a better sense of the actions
their organizations can take
as part of a co-ordinated ef-
fort to make the more pro-
mising options a reality in
the not-too-distant future.

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