Senior Housing News September 23, 2021
Tim Regan

2Life Communities President and CEO Amy Schectman still remembers the tearful phone calls.

Desperate family members would phone Schectman crying, and relay an all-too-familiar problem: their loved ones earned slightly too much to qualify for true affordable senior housing, but not enough to afford living in market-rate communities.

In the senior living industry, this group is sometimes referred to as “the forgotten middle,” a moniker that refers to the vast and growing segment of middle-income older adults that will have trouble affording traditional senior living services in the years to come.

“I cry, too, because I wish I could make an exemption,” Schectman said.

Those tearful phone calls were one of the driving forces behind 2Life’s newest endeavor, Opus. The...

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