Study warns more senior citizens will become homeless, By Anita Creamer, April 6, 2010, Sacramento Bee: “New national research validates an unfortunate trend that Sacramento homeless advocates already see starting to play out: With the huge baby boom generation gradually entering old age, experts are braced for a new population of homeless seniors. In a report released last week, the National Alliance to End Homelessness projects that if current homeless trends remain true, the nation’s population of senior homeless will increase by 33 percent in a decade’s time – and by 50 percent in 2050…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty