Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression

Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by macNchz on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:41AM (#37644615)

SROs used to exist to fill that gap, but were largely banned over the last hundred years. The stupid thing is that now they basically exist again in the form of regular hotels, except city governments are the ones paying full price to house otherwise homeless people.

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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by jxramos on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:07AM (#37645079)

this would be interesting history to review in video format of someone walked through the before and after and the transition. This makes me think of these very old hotels which used to line a major street in my town that slowly faded away and crumbled. I wonder if they were SRO properties essentially.

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Re:Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen sin... by DakotaR on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:25AM (#37645386)

I rented for a few months in a motel converted to studios/section 8, great niche and I wish it was more common

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