Yeah. Obviously it's all her own fault. s/
Let's see. For one thing, at 84, that means that her working years were at a wage about half that of a man, so that had a big effect on her Soc. Sec. check. Were she getting the average male Soc Sec check, she'd be okay.
She had NO control over that.
Alone at 84 - lot's of possible reasons for that. She may have been widowed, she may not have been able to have children, or her child/children may have already died.
etc
Women of her age did not have the opportunities or equalities women do today.
But yep. Let's just assume she's old (that's probably her fault too. After all, she's no longer of use to society, she should have the good grace to depart) - anyway, she must be alone and in dire straights, financially, due to her own faults.
Be the way, she said she "had to sell" - which indicates the trailer, itself, was hers = and the $800 plus a month is just for lot rent. That sounds outrageous to me.
But then, I am probably not far behind her - I've had my house for 17 years - my oil costs almost 4 times more, my taxes are doubled, etc etc = but my Soc Sec goes up about $20 a year. Wont be many more before the expenses exceed the income - certainly be the time I'm 84.
Fortunately I DO have children who have already tried to get me to live with them. So I don't have to worry on that score. It's that I want to live independent - I should have that right.
My mother died last year at 88. After her childhood in an orphanage and then on a small farm, she worked her way through Texas Womens University during the depression and then as a teacher for 40 years. She owned a nice house, with a husband who probably made about the same as her, had moderate investments but lived off her teachers retirement and maximum social security until her stroke and advancing Alzheimer’s at 84. Then she lived at an ALF near me. She was a liberal democrat, but I never hear her say she “should have a right” to live independently. She simply made her right to live independently, and didn’t make excuses, expecting someone else to support her “right” to live in an $800 per month area without savings.