‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trend
‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trend
individuals pointed to a major event, like the death of a spouse or a medical emergency, as the trigger.
Gee, if only we had a healthcare system that wasn't solely focused on making a profit and growing the amount of profit quarter after quarter.
It's not just that, it's Boomers as a generation not saving.
Obviously some did, but most have lived their entire lives paycheck to paycheck and have zero security net. It's why they're not retiring like other generations, it's not a choice, they just can't ever stop working.
And they can't recover from any speed bumps they hit. Losing a spouse for those people also means losing an income. And that can mean losing housing.
Honestly. Medical bills are the number one cause for bankruptcy in the US
So nobody gives a shit that the younger generations can't afford a house, but it's "unconscionable" when boomers can't?
You don't earn the title "Me" generation without being legendarily self important.
"Well, well, well...if it isn't the consequences of my actions"
The young people who can't BUY a house still have housing. This is about unhoused people who are in a decidedly worse position.
I don't know what's it's like where you are, but there are definitely also a lot of young homeless people where I live. I don't just mean house-less, I mean living in tents or worse.
It really sucks that so many people are suffering, and there isn't even a good reason for it.
You can work your arse off day in, day out, only to get hit by someone driving drunk. Then, you get stuck on insufficient disability payments, even through you had no fault in what happened to you. Even if you manage get a decent court payout in a good country, you're still probably looking at a lot of expenses accessibility-wise (ESPECIALLY if you live somewhere like the US.) A lot of that stuff isn't cheap. Plus, you would have to try to make that payment last for the rest of your life. Food, bills, rent, clothing, and more would all still be costs you would have.
It sucks that so many people push back against any kind of support for these individuals. It really makes you wonder what they would do if they woke up with the shoe on the other foot.
Boomer retirement plans and savings aren't enough? Sheesh what hope do any of us have, then? They are the wealthiest generation this country has ever seen..
Have you seen the size of the average American home?
It doesn't matter how much money you make if you spend it all after you've already exceeded your ability to earn income through work when you still have decades left to live .
I don't subscribe to "all boomers blew their money." My parents worked hard all their lives, and were as successful as any average couple. They are fortunate enough to have a roof over their head and some assets to liquidate, but there's no question they were not where they anticipated being financially entering retirement.
It's just hard out here. Every year the rug gets a little longer, the treadmill runs a bit faster. Even if you get ahead, do everything right, it just takes one market downturn or medical diagnosis to still lose.
How did these boomers vote?
What policies did they support for their entire lives that have impacted this?
Hey this is what they wanted, right? Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, ya chucklefucks! Stop buying all that diabetic medicine and eating out at Bob Evans every day!
Let's see how many of those same boomers still blame everyone else, including liberals, for how their life is ending up and continue voting for the same party that stripped them of the social safetynets and policies that may have helped them out in a situation like this.
There were actually no homeless Boomers during the great depression.
That's why the numbers haven't been seen before.
Well, they brought it on themselves.
No sympathy, not even a little.
When we can't afford housing we're told to get a second job, get a better job, stop buying things we can't afford, eat only 2 meals a day, etc. When the reality is that we can't afford housing because of the world they created, how they vote, and because they pulled up the ladder with them just before they told us to find our own way.
Well, those same policies and voting habits are finally biting them in the ass and we're supposed to give a shit?
Nah, they're attitude has always been "fuck you, got mine" well, fuck them too, they also got mine.Yep and when they complain about paying taxes or how things got so expensive you tell them to get a job and they gasp and say "I paid my dues....I'm retired".
Tarring an entire generation with the same brush is dumb as hell. It's dumb when boomers whine about the young and it's dumb when people try and pin the blame for this mess on literally everyone in a similar age group.
Here's why...
...They all have been voting republican since Reagan.
Full stop.
This sparks joy. Welcome to the party you created.
I agree and understand however the ones going homeless were most likely victimized by the ones who created this situation in their peer group
Maybe I'm dumb for not lumping an entire generation of people into this huge group of bad actors who intentionally and maliciously hurt all subsequent generations.
The issue is money. What part of "people don't have money" is so hard to digest?
The disparity has become much much wider over the years, and that is the issue.
The ones hording wealth and property are not the ones going homeless.
Here's a
.Lest you think that a one-off,
.Boomers loved that withered, hateful, hollowed out motherfucker.
(Yeah that's the electoral college and the popular vote was a lot closer, but that's a level of support no President has had since in even one election let alone two.)
theres no profit incentive, of course these useless bags of flesh deserve to be put on the streets. welcome to america!
Is this why grandma has an OnlyFans?
Oh this is the perfect thread for a trickle down economics joke.
That caught me off guard.
Nah, she's just freaky.
This is terrible, and nobody deserves this. As a millennial that has ben constantly screwed by boomers and their collective decisions, I can't help but to think that "you rip what you saw. Maybe they should try to make the coffee at home to save money, instead of going to Starbucks. Also, they'll be fine if they stop eating so many expensive avocados."
you rip what you saw
reap, you reap what you sow, because if you sow wheat on fertile ground, you can later reap wheat.
rip what you saw kinda works if you're talking about ripping plywood 😁
"you rip what you saw.
You reap what you sew.
As in; you harvest the plants that grew from the seeds you planted.
"The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed"
However, my Bugles are always lubed by my frothing salivating mouth. I'm a bit hungry and getting weird, sorry you had to read that.
A little taste on their own medicine, eh. Better start tugging on those bootstraps, Karen.
Kek.