Los Angeles Times: For Women Ex-Prisoners, Food Insecurity can Trigger Catastrophe. Activists Want More Aid (June 19, 2023) Mirabal is one of thousands of women “For Women Ex-Prisoners, Food Insecurity can Trigger Catastrophe. Activists Want More Aid”
Category: SENIOR POVERTY
More Baby Boomers are Becoming Homeless: It Takes Just One Crisis to Push Someone onto the Streets
MarketWatch: More Baby Boomers are Becoming Homeless: It Takes Just One Crisis to Push Someone onto the Streets (June 12, 2023) People aged 65 and “More Baby Boomers are Becoming Homeless: It Takes Just One Crisis to Push Someone onto the Streets”
The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has Accelerated
California Healthline: The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has Accelerated (April 12, 2023) A growing number of California’s oldest residents are dying of “The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has Accelerated”
Fact Sheet: Highlights of HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule for Aging and Disability Advocates
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released an extensive proposed rule on the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA’s) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing “Fact Sheet: Highlights of HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule for Aging and Disability Advocates”
Housing Week: The Array of Forces that Push Seniors Into Homelessness
Jefferson Public Radio: Housing Week: The Array of Forces that Push Seniors Into Homelessness (March 20, 2023) If we’re lucky, we make enough money at “Housing Week: The Array of Forces that Push Seniors Into Homelessness”
Documentary: Women Unseen–Aging Matters
Nashville Public Television: Women Unseen–Aging Matters (February 13, 2023) Women Unseen focuses on the challenges women face as they age, including economic insecurity, outliving partners, “Documentary: Women Unseen–Aging Matters”
The Fastest-Growing Homeless Population? Seniors
Cal Matters: The Fastest-Growing Homeless Population? Seniors (February 10, 2023) California accounts for about a third of the nation’s homeless people, and among this population, seniors “The Fastest-Growing Homeless Population? Seniors”
Low-Income Seniors Still at Risk of Homelessness Despite Extended Eviction Moratoriums and Tenant Protections
Spectrum News: Low-Income Seniors Still at Risk of Homelessness Despite Extended Eviction Moratoriums and Tenant Protections (February 1, 2023) Roughly 226,000 LA County households are “Low-Income Seniors Still at Risk of Homelessness Despite Extended Eviction Moratoriums and Tenant Protections”
The Legacy Film Festival Focuses on Poverty, Workplace Ageism, and the Housing Crisis
KALW Your Call Radio: The Legacy Film Festival Focuses on Poverty, Workplace Ageism, and the Housing Crisis (January 11, 2023) This edition of Your Call “The Legacy Film Festival Focuses on Poverty, Workplace Ageism, and the Housing Crisis”
The High Cost of Rising Rents
AARP: The High Costs of Rising Rents (December, 2022) Being forced to move because of surging rents in the past year has become a common occurrence across “The High Cost of Rising Rents”