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‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trend (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Banshee@midwest.social to c/politics@hexbear.net

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I wish I could feel sympathy, but I don't. The Reagan generation did this to themselves, and the rest of us have to suffer with them.

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I genuinely don’t know how to solve this until the boomers all fucking die. Which is clearly not a great solution to boomer homelessness.

“Group specifically responsible for creating this problem who will fight to the death to prevent solving the problem increasingly at risk from it”

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

It’s a class issue, the idle rich of every generation will oppose change until the reins of power are taken away from them and given back to the people.

[-] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 26 points 1 year ago

I honestly wonder just how many of the homeless babyboomers have kids who are perfectly capable of helping them, but want absolutely no contact with their parents.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've cut out pretty much every boomer-age person from my life, biologically related and otherwise, in the last few years. Something about trump-moist either made them worse or just made the masks fall off and they were always that way.

I helped a few of them out of homelessness-adjacent financial crises in the past (one was a house-flipping parasite that became over-leveraged during the 2008/2009 recession and lost just about everything and needed enough money to stay off the street until they got a job). If such things happened again now, they're on their own, especially after their red-faced bloodthirsty rants about "the storm" and what they wanted to happen if it came for the (slurs). frothingfash

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Distant family boomer of mine is close to homelessness since he isn't selling his 10 bedroom house to shrink, since he doesn't want to live with other people. Could live on 30k from sold house + 25k pension after taxes for the next 35 years.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

frothingfash as long as i go bankrupt from propping up a souless corporation than getting a sustainable living from being a SOCIALIST LEECH OFF THE TAXPAYERS.

When souless corp does it so-true it's just smart buisness! Go back to econ 101 commie!