VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS AND ADVOCACY - THE CASE OF HOUSING FOR OLDER AMERICANS

This article provides a brief overview of nonprofit organizations and advocacy that outlines the multiple forms that advocacy might take and introduces a conceptual framework for understanding better the discur sive attributes of advocacy. Housing opportunities for older people in the United States are then reviewed, focusing in particular an the ro le of nonprofit organizations. This brief historical review provides t he context for a consideration of the ways in which nonprofits have ad vocated on behalf of elderly people, in debates about housing, looking in particular at representations made at the Select Committee on Agin g. Conclusions address matters relating to both housing in particular and the role of nonprofits in a more general view.