Seniors are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population

That’s a disgrace in this country to be doing this to the elderly. Absolutely sickening.

For the first time in the history of the country, Seniors outnumber young people. The Baby Boomers of the late 40’s and early 50’s are reaching senior age. The birth rate is down. Our government doesn’t want to acknowledge this issue and thousands of seniors are struggling to stay alive in one of the richest countries in the world. Low income housing is not being built. The middle class is disappearing. Many of the homeless men are veterans. We have seriously dropped the ball when it comes to taking care of our own. We just gave the Ukraine a billion dollars for their war refugees. A war we are not even in. Go figure.

America is a scary a$$ place to get old in

Shame Shame Shame on Every State municipality that is grossly fleecing the Elderly, Veterans, Retirees and Homeowners with egregious property tax bills and high rents! Where are the State representatives to put a stop to this madness??!! People ARE losing their homes/apartments. 73% of homeowners are over 55. A good percentage of those over 65 have paid off their homes. However, of recent years, many of these are losing their only homes due to overvaluation of their homes, along with other increases thus very high Property tax jump. These are people who are middle class and close to middle class. Majority are only on Social Security and Pension, and do not qualify for Property Tax Relief or Benefits. 1) Property Taxes, HOA Fees, Condo Fees, Overpriced homes, are making hard working taxpayers lose their only property (Home, Condo). How can it be legal to suddenly raise Rent, Condo fees and HOA fees by 40+%. 2) How can these crooked tax assessors be allowed to overvalue someone's only home by hundreds of thousands of dollars, when they are not investors and those homes are their only child hood homes. Many areas are becoming like Detroit and Mississippi - desolate and empty as the working voting taxpayer is continuously fleeced. The vile municipality tax assessors are getting multi-year promotions using Tax Payer dollars because these tax assessors ARE Overvaluing people's properties to bring in money to the municipalities. They don't care that people end up homeless (many veterans and elderly affected) or their home comes into foreclosure because they had to borrow against equity and credit cards to try and pay their property taxes or HOA or Condo fees. Where are ALL the State representatives to put a stop to this madness? Suppose these were your parents or grandparents?

Boy is everyone in for a treat next year when new condo laws go into effect.

The housing prices is affecting the disabled and elderly so terribly. I know some who is 30, has SSI disability, works a part time job, is in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy and could find no housing. There is no longer a preference for disabled or elderly with affordable housing. People threw away affirmative action without considering all the consequences.

Also affecting the younger generations, we just don’t see it as much because they are living at their parent’s homes.

it is true. I am 64 years young now it took me four years, to get into senior housing, I’m disabled, I am blind, I also have multiple brain aneurysms. I can live on my own, but I can’t afford it I make $1000 a month only. I have no other income than that. it’s pretty sad that the seniors are left behind when they’re the ones that keep the country going in the first place.

She’s so beautiful and her spirit is so pure, God please protect this angel!

This not a feel good story. This is a sad shame on our city and state that this can even be allowed to happen. Meanwhile, our governor and legislature are busy banning books, sending immigrants on a private flights to other states and finding money for any student that wants to leave a public school and go to a private school no matter how rich they are.

This is so sad. Something needs to change.

Retirees use to get pensions from their former employers. People reaching retirement age now didn't make the cut off where it was common for employers to offer pensions. There is no mystery here.

I will un-alive myself before sleeping on the streets.

I'm very near retirement age, and suddenly became disabled. In my 5 yrs of being on SS, my standard of living has gotten a bit worse each year. My buying power goes down with each COLA. I have no doubt I'll face homelessness one day as a senior. All it takes when you barely can survive, is bad luck, with no one to help. One apartment sale and a new owner can make things slip over that edge, and to the car you go, if you're blessed to have a car. Thank God I do for now. One bad expense repair and that's gone from my life too. I'd work if I could, but I need an aid to help to me stay on my own. I hear a hollowness when I turn my ear towards my future. I hope and pray they approve assisted suicide by then. I'm too sick to make even a month like these poor souls are enduring.

I love her spirit. Blessings to you my dear.

These seniors are also automobile/RV owners like the movie “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.” The film was awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The US advertises itself as being at the vanguard of global “development”, but the nation’s healthcare, poverty and other indicators suggest a policy of wilful counterdevelopment instead. Back in 2017, Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, visited the US for two weeks. At the end of his trip, he issued a statement on how he found the country “exceptional in … ways that are shockingly at odds with its immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights”.

My mawmaw lives with me. She worked for 65 years and can’t afford to live alone because it is to expensive. I feel so bad for the elderly.

what their not telling you is the new giant mansions that are going to be built for the super rich where her house used to be, isn't that great?

National average, it costs taxpayers $50,000 a year to have one homeless person on our streets!