Housing Crisis: People and Board Member

housing crisis: People end up living on the streets, or living in their cars, or crashing with friends, sleeping on the couch, said Linda Forsythe, a board member of 411 Seniors Centre Society, according to CTV. That used to happen a lot with young people, she said. While the debate over the city's housing crisis often focuses on millennials, people who work with seniors say elderly adults have lower incomes and fewer supports to withstand being displaced from their homes. They could tolerate it quite well, and sort of get on with their lives, whereas, with older people, you don't have a chance to make more money. Seniors are enduring the same rent hikes as other tenants in Vancouver, but have disproportionately lower incomes and higher medical costs. That's the problem. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.