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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown
3:31:02
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3 min
Sharon Brown testifies on various issues affecting seniors, including housing, financial support, and food security. She emphasizes the need for independent living options, increased funding, and programs to support older adults' well-being and financial stability.
- Advocates for allocating housing for seniors without specific "senior housing" labels
- Suggests funding senior businesses, home ownership, and investment opportunities
- Calls for supplemental funding for rent, repairs, transportation, and food assistance
- Proposes programs for seniors to grow their own food and increase food security
Sharon Brown
3:31:02
Hello.
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I'm Sharon Brown from Rose of Sharon Enterprises.
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Remember, Israel released the hostages, let Yahweh's people go.
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Okay.
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For the aging population, they need housing to be allocated for them without having the senior housing labels.
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Now some have been moved out of their homes when places closed or changed to different housings that were senior housing.
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Like immigrants, they changed one senior center into immigrant housing and an older gentleman who was a veteran was kicked out of his house or senior center housing and they moved in all of the immigrants.
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So they need to find a way to allocate housing just for seniors in regular housing.
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And seniors need to be independent.
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The help that they need should not be compulsory.
3:32:00
They should ask for it themselves and get the things that they're requesting and needed.
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We need to fund senior businesses, senior home ownership.
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We need to invest for seniors, help them put money together to get stocks, bonds, investment, and get wealth for themselves so that they can own property, not just be in senior housing.
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We also need to look into why there are fifty percent of false diagnosis for fatal diagnosis.
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This is in a paper and they're showing that the diagnosis are not correct.
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We also need to make sure when there are illnesses that they are taken care of with funding, with medical, funding and everything.
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We need supplemental funding for seniors, especially for the Jewish community for their safety.
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We need to allocate extra funding supplemental for rent, repairs, transportation, housing above what they already have.
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Now we need to make sure that seniors have cash in hand, whatever that may be, food stamps or whatever, above what they're already getting if they're on, some kind of retirement or social security or whatever they're getting.
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If they cannot afford food, they need to be able to have funding to get it from regular sources.
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We need to make sure that people are advocating that they can get public assistance, EBT, SNAP, social security for the interim time.
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They can get social security when they cannot meet their bills.
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We can't have our seniors hungry.
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We also need them to start a program where they're growing vegetables maybe in the seniors homes, they teach them how to grow vegetables or the seniors teach them or they allocate spaces where seniors can grow food for the senior population and they can get their food from their own senior owned food.
Crystal Hudson
3:34:11
Thank you.
3:34:11
Yeah.
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Thank you so much.
Sharon Brown
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God bless.