America’s graying homeless population is expanding, challenging policy makers from Los Angeles to New York to come up with new plans for sheltering the last of the baby boomers as they get older, sicker and less able to pay spiraling rents.
in Oakland on how homelessness affects health has shown nearly half of the tens of thousands of older homeless people in the U.S. are on the streets for the first time.
The aged homeless also tend to have smaller Social Security checks after years working off the books. A third of some 900 older homeless people in Phoenix said in a recent survey they have no income at all. Susan slept in her car with her dog at one of the gated parking lots that provide a bathroom, showers and a shared refrigerator and microwave.But residents enjoyed the community, grilling meals together and even surprising one in their group with a birthday cake.
Many nearing retirement never got well-paying jobs and didn’t buy homes because of discriminatory real estate practices. Finocchio said limited contributions were made for her into Social Security and Medicare because most of her jobs were off the books in telephone sales or watering office plants. The Arizona Department of Housing last year provided a $7.5 million block grant for the state’s largest shelter to buy an old hotel to temporarily house up to 170 older people without a place to stay. The city of Phoenix kicked in $4 million for renovations.
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