> So perhaps the solution is more affordable senior housing built in lower cost of living areas?
That's still necessary but we're past the optimum point where that is helpful.
Once folks transition into homelessness, they've lost their income earning ability. Reacquiring employment is much harder after homelessness and much worse for older people. For them, the pool of who will hire them sharply decreases year by year.
We need a modern sort of WPA. Even for some of the mentally ill homeless people there is plenty of work in the city for them to do if we bothered designing a jobs program.
That's still necessary but we're past the optimum point where that is helpful.
Once folks transition into homelessness, they've lost their income earning ability. Reacquiring employment is much harder after homelessness and much worse for older people. For them, the pool of who will hire them sharply decreases year by year.