Local News in Brief : Housing Shortage Seen

The number of people 65 years old and older in Los Angeles County is expected to reach more than 1 million by the year 2000 and many will not be able to find housing, according to a report by the county’s Senior Citizen’s Housing Task Force.

The task force findings, which were released Tuesday, predict that the senior population, which accounted for less than 10% of the county’s 7.5 million residents in 1980, will make up 11.8% of the county population at the turn of the century.

As a result, housing seniors with low and moderate incomes will be a particularly serious problem, said the task force report, reflecting “a growing need that is not now being met either by the public or private sectors.”

The task force, comprising county officials, gerontologists and representatives of the building industry and the public, presented their report to the Board of Supervisors, which is expected to adopt a policy for senior housing in the county.