Growing number of seniors face homelessness

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A rising number of elderly people are facing the prospect of losing their homes after Covid-era moratoriums on eviction expired. The process of appealing eviction orders can be cumbersome to seniors with few resources. Begad Shaban reports.
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@hellobot67 4 ай бұрын

To all the ppl saying kids will care for you when you are old. THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!!

@melanie7781 4 ай бұрын

Where are her children? I would never allow my mother to go homeless.

@bbills4186 4 ай бұрын

Hello! That was my first thought. Where are the kids she adopted???

@hellobot67 4 ай бұрын

agreed!!! Where are they! I will be homeless before my mother. shes too kind. I could try to handle it. She couldn't at an much older age like her

@NatureConnection-zn4jw 2 ай бұрын

Some families are very dysfunctional. Not saying hers is but it's very common.

@Landis_Grant 2 ай бұрын

Being adopted, her “kids” don’t care about her.

@maxinewest4096 4 ай бұрын

Such an sad situation, about people being homeless, and lots of it due to greed of overpriced rent.

@punapeter 4 ай бұрын

She shouldn't be renting at 80, where did her life's money go to?

@nunyadambusiness3530 4 ай бұрын

@@punapeter it doesn't matter what happened. housing is a human right. maybe we need to seize properties & turn them into USDA/HUD housing capped at 30% of tenant income. Force landlords to compete with public housing.

@punapeter 4 ай бұрын

@@nunyadambusiness3530 Never happen, "maybe we need to seize" we who? Hoards of homeless? You think they would be treated by SWAT as nice as they did Ivy Legue students protesting a genocide? You can't take anyone's property, if they bought it what right do you have to it. This isn't communish or a dictatorship. And where is it written housing is a human right? No one gave me my first house. I built it when I was 19. On the back of a 29 chevy flatbed truck I got for $80. w/no engine. The house was built before the motor was running. You call them 'tiny house' today. We called them Housetrucks back then. Google it. And I lived in it the summer of 72' in Eugene ore. the Winter it got to 11 degrees in town. So what are your excuses??? No skils?

@richardgomez5008 4 ай бұрын

Work and common sense will help you in life.

@punapeter 4 ай бұрын

@@nunyadambusiness3530 No it's not, you have the right to build your own house, not to HAVE one GIVEN to you for free. China will do that for you, Russia will do that for you. Not America. You aren't seizing anything lid. Get a job.

@davidmichaels4285 4 ай бұрын

Not good

@daniellebrooks7510 4 ай бұрын

Why arent there federal laws saying landlords cant charge more than 5% per year

@cutthechicken194 4 ай бұрын

They were laws in every state that cap rent prices. But after 1969 boomers & gen x voted for laws makers who rid of those laws. By 1980s thoes reasonable guardrails were gone.

@janetcrowley2137 4 ай бұрын

where are the laws that cities can't double the property taxes? can't quadruple the utilities, water, sewer, trash, electric gas? can't raise or cancel your insurance? Raise the rent, why? They couldn't pay it then, they can't pay it now. But as a small landlord, I can't keep this up. I'm going to have to salvage what I can, sell what I can and get out, or I will end up losing everything, and end up out in the street with them.

@daniellebrooks7510 3 ай бұрын

@@janetcrowley2137 ma'am if you don't know the rules of being a landlord you shouldn't be one, when the city raises your property taxes you can challenge it like I did and won I showed them my home is 100 years old and needs 20k in repairs this brought my evaluation down and lowered my property taxes from 2400 to 1200 then I challenged my high utilities and won it was a defect with my hvac system raising my bills

@tommyudo3195 3 ай бұрын

Because that's "socialism."

@tommyudo3195 4 ай бұрын

Remember when the GOP promised that cuts to entitlement programs would never result in this kind of thing?

@LAFITZ10 4 ай бұрын

TRUMP LIES every time his LIPS move

@LBM-1956 3 ай бұрын

Nowadays the ones getting the entitlements EBT, government housing, medicaid, illegals and those who have kids get the majority, the more kids you have the more you get while the seniors and vets get little to nothing now. Was not that way 4 years ago. Lets not forget other countries, students loans even when they did not graduate and those entering the US illegally.

@tommyudo3195 3 ай бұрын

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@tommyudo3195 3 ай бұрын

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@davemathews7890 3 ай бұрын

@@LBM-1956 What are you blabbering on about?

@schawnettarobinson8584 4 ай бұрын

People don’t care. Honestly, the owner and lawyer’s elderly family member didn’t end up in this situation. Hopefully, they won’t end up in this situation when they get old.

@chrisaycock5965 4 ай бұрын

It's going to get worse at this rate imagine the next generation and the generation after reaching their retirement years..

@Dflowen 4 ай бұрын

Telling all new blood min wage workers who are graduating. It will only get tougher for you out there. But won't moving to another State be better than California? Or they are also slowly jacking up their prices and cost of living as well?

@chrisaycock5965 4 ай бұрын

@@Dflowen we’re already at the point people are going to “flyover” states to save on cost once too many people live in those places I’m not sure where you’d go

@kateskeys 4 ай бұрын

I can relate tell her to come live with me. Nyc

@punapeter 4 ай бұрын

Oakland sucks but NYC is 100 times worse. lol

@MaliaMichelleMescudi 4 ай бұрын

Landlord should get a job and stop relying on seniors for their income

@danielb3863 4 ай бұрын

That is their job. So let ppl live in their property for free?

@UnchosenRatomaniaTheS8 4 ай бұрын

If someone doesn't want to pay rent, then buy.

@malcriadamedina5358 4 ай бұрын

@@UnchosenRatomaniaTheS8lol what a ridiculous thing to say

@UnchosenRatomaniaTheS8 4 ай бұрын

What is criminal is expecting to live on someone else's property for FREE. She owes $18,000 in rent! A landlord is not your welfare office.

@annesand7157 3 ай бұрын

I am in Colorado Springs. I get SS but it’s not enough. I have to work. I was told by several complexes that I make too much money for affordable rentals. I cannot afford to pay $1500 a month. A lot of rentals here in Colorado Springs a charging junk fees on top of rent. A one bedroom can cost over $1900 a month.

@richardgomez5008 4 ай бұрын

The American Dream is becoming the American Nightmare.😱 ❤❤I am living the American Dream❤❤ Being poor in my early life, my mother's advice was buy your house. I purchased my first house, a one-bedroom old house $2,400 cash.(Loaned by family). Worked all my life and am enjoying my Golden Years. ❤❤USA❤❤

@timreid3020 4 ай бұрын

But all the mingnts get any and everything free

@tommyudo3195 4 ай бұрын

What do they get free?

@ICallItAsItIs 4 ай бұрын

@@tommyudo3195 You must have been living under a rock these last couple of years.

@tommyudo3195 4 ай бұрын

@@ICallItAsItIs You must be a very unhappy person.

@JusticeAlways 4 ай бұрын

@@ICallItAsItIs No..tommyudo isn't living "under a rock"...explain with credible evidence what migrants are getting free. Hint: it's all lies.

@timreid3020 3 ай бұрын

Money cards houseing food stamps car's

@Landis_Grant 2 ай бұрын

“It’s not fair” said an 80-year old naive person.

@grand_vacation 3 ай бұрын

Come to Upstate NY

@NatureConnection-zn4jw 2 ай бұрын

Americans treat seniors like crap 😢

@Greyteam4291 4 ай бұрын

Bidenomics

@kateskeys 4 ай бұрын

Wrong

@ICallItAsItIs 4 ай бұрын

@@kateskeys Nope, RIGHT!!!

@Greyteam4291 4 ай бұрын

@kateskeys i don't know what's worse. You're not smart enough to see Biden is a puppet for the rich, or you had nothing better to do on a Friday night then show everyone your clueless.

@JeffreySmith7777 4 ай бұрын

" Unity!!!" Joey Cannibals Biden

@MariaMartinez-researcher 4 ай бұрын

Why are you upset? Haven't you heard "people shouldn't expect to live from the government's handouts"? "Pull yourself by your bootstraps." "I don't want my tax money be used to support leeches." "The government shouldn't meddle in business." "Small government, no regulations, freedom." Trump has said he is willing to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Rick Scott planned to end all federal plans in 5 years. Tax cuts )for companies and the wealthy), no regulations (business, environment, etc.) are the motto of Republicans. So, why are you upset? This is capitalism. You should be glad housing businesses are expelling the bad customers.

@mandyharewood886 4 ай бұрын

Huh?

@JeffreySmith7777 4 ай бұрын

@@mandyharewood886, the sun is bright and hot.

@herballycorrect 4 ай бұрын

Soon President Trump will be back in office, and we’ll be able to afford groceries, gas up, pay rent, and still have a little something in the bank again. Yippee!

@richardgomez5008 4 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Thank you for today's joke. Tell me another joke, tomorrow.

@JusticeAlways 4 ай бұрын

Find another candidate. ⭐️VOTE FOR JOE ⭐️ NOT THE PSYCHO

@jericherry3374 4 ай бұрын

Keep believing in that false dream!

@pinkcrayon1382 4 ай бұрын

Friend, if you are expecting ANY politician to improve your personal financial circumstance, you are seriously undereducated.

@GwenClyde-iv7et 3 ай бұрын

I do hope that will be true if Trump does get that seat. Hopefully everyone including you won't be disappointed 4 to 6months after being in office you and others suspects his policies aren't lining up with what in your wallet😢.

@punapeter 4 ай бұрын

Oh well, I'm 70 and I paid cash for my home 20 years ago. You need to plan for your old age so you won't be a sad story for the M$M news propaganda. Seniors who are smart weren't hit hard at all.

@richardgomez5008 4 ай бұрын

Working and common sense. I'm 73, at 21 my first one-bedroom old house cost $2,400 cash, loaned by family. ($1.77 hourly wage was my starting pay at 18) ❤❤USA❤❤

@punapeter 4 ай бұрын

@@richardgomez5008 My first house I built when I was 19, it cost me $7,000 cash to build, on the back of my 29 Chevy flatbed truck. Today they call them tiny houses, we called them Housetrucks. That was the summer of 72' in Eugene (and minimum wage was $1.60). But I never worked for mimimum wage.

@hellobot67 4 ай бұрын

you went to college when it was affordable and made money when housing was affordable to when it wasn't you had MORE money to cover it 20 years ago.

@punapeter 3 ай бұрын

@@hellobot67 It was all relative, wahes were lower too you forgot that. How about scholarships? How about grants? Wvwer heard of those. How was college more afforadable 20 years ago? You make excuses a lot in your life do you?

@richardgomez5008 3 ай бұрын

@@hellobot67I did not go to college because my family could not afford it. When I bought my second house at $6,000 with 1/2 cash and payments, I spend a sleepless night worried about a $60 monthly payment! 🤣🤣🤣Yes, prices were cheaper but when your wage is $1.77an hour everything seems expensive. It's not how much you make, its how much you save.