"[T]he maximum social security amount for an individual in 2014 is $721 per month."

Maximum Social Security Benefit: Worker Retiring at Full Retirement Age in 2014: $2,642/mo.
http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/factsheet…

$721 is the maximum Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which is a separate benefit based on need.

If we assume that the seniors in question worked enough to be eligible for regular social security benefits and meet the income requirements for SSI, then they would get their regular SS benefits PLUS the SSI benefits.

I'll grant that social security isn't much to live on, but it's not quite as dire as "The max Social Security check anyone can get isn't enough to cover rent, much less anything else."

If you're talking about Assisted Living, then Kent has some of the cheapest options, as low as $2200 per month.

It seems dishonest to link the lack of affordable senior housing to Frank Chopp. Left carefully unsaid here is that without Chopp's work, many existing units for low-income seniors would never have been built. I know he agrees there are too few. But trying to blame him for that is like blaming Dan Savage for people needing his sex advice so badly.

Sorry, but I'm far more concerned about affordable workforce housing.

Caring for seniors is an issue of charity, not of ensuring that workers are able to reach their workplace without an hour and a half commute.

The average Social Security monthly benefit is one thousand two hundred dollars. Try to house and feed yourself from that, Merula.