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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Housing Development</title>
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		<title>What’s the Housing Market Going to Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-the-housing-market-going-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-the-housing-market-going-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, slumping housing markets in Canada and the US have most definitely affected occupancy levels in seniors’ housing projects.  We have posted about this issue before. One of my concerns has always been that even after housing markets recover it will take older people even longer to forget the reversals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it Would be Wonderful to be a Seniors’ Housing Market Analyst in the USA</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/why-it-would-be-wonderful-to-be-a-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-market-analyst-in-the-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American vs. Canadian Seniors Housing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have made this point before several times (about the vastly superior information on the US seniors housing industry) but I was struck anew by the disparities between our two countries earlier this week. The wonderful National Investment Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It also has a new Research Director. In a recent newsletter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Lease Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/life-lease-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/life-lease-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Lease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working on something to do with life lease the other day and googled an article by an Ontario lawyer named John Clark. The article is called Life Lease Residential Housing: Is it Time for Legislation? So far Manitoba is the only province that has enacted legislation dealing with life leases, although other provinces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun City Arizona is 50 Years Old</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/sun-city-arizona-is-50-years-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/sun-city-arizona-is-50-years-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parksville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That seems almost impossible to believe.  Not so much its age per se, but the fact that it was built when the median age in the US was 29.5 and the oldest baby boomer was 14. Today the median age is 36.7 and the oldest boomer is 64. Del Webb died in 1974. I don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Required: Title for Book on Seniors’ Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/help-required-title-for-book-on-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/help-required-title-for-book-on-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As regular readings of this blog know, I am writing a book that will be published shortly (meaning in the next couple of months). It is currently titled The Future of Seniors’ Housing: Planning, Building and Operating Successful Seniors’ Housing Projects.
That is quite a dull title I admit. A book designer suggested I come up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Interesting Stuff from the Census We Will Never Know Again</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/more-interesting-stuff-from-the-census-we-will-never-know-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/more-interesting-stuff-from-the-census-we-will-never-know-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian Census]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have said before numerous times in this blog I believe that the changes the federal government is making to the 2011 Canadian Census by removing the mandatory long form are completely boneheaded. Here is another example of data that will no longer be available:
In Richmond, a suburb of Metro Vancouver, 40% of the 65+ households [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Book: A Few Steps Closer to Publication</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/my-book-a-few-steps-closer-to-publication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/my-book-a-few-steps-closer-to-publication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted a couple of times about my forthcoming book currently titled The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building, and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects. The original goal was to publish mid-year but now it’s looking more like fall. However great progress has been made over the last few months and I am feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin School of Public Policy: Stephen Harper, Tony Clement and the 2011 Census</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/sarah-palin-school-of-public-policy-stephen-harper-tony-clement-and-the-2011-census/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/sarah-palin-school-of-public-policy-stephen-harper-tony-clement-and-the-2011-census/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The furor over the 2011 Census reminds me of Sarah Palin claiming she understood international relations because she could see Russia from her front door. That is how all of us will have to operate in the future—without benefit of actual facts guiding our decisions.
I have noted in past posts how we rely on data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seniors’ Housing Projects: Location, Location, Location&#8211;How Important is it Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/seniors%e2%80%99-housing-projects-location-location-location-how-important-is-it-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/seniors%e2%80%99-housing-projects-location-location-location-how-important-is-it-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom suggests that for supportive seniors’ housing projects (meals, housekeeping, laundry etc), walking-distance proximity to stores and services is, if not essential, then at the very least extremely important. But without sitting down and doing the math, I would say that a minority of supportive seniors’ housing projects in BC are located close enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Moving to Canada in Search of More Affordable Seniors’ Housing and Health Care?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/americans-moving-to-canada-in-search-of-more-affordable-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-and-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/americans-moving-to-canada-in-search-of-more-affordable-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-and-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a comment about this recently. The writer was hypothesizing that as costs for seniors’ housing and health care rise in the US, Americans might move to Canada or Mexico in search of more affordable alternatives.
In both cases (i.e. Canada and Mexico) the fly in the ointment for Americans actually contemplating such a move [...]]]></description>
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