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

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

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

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On an unrelated note, suddenly, boomers care about affordable housing for no apparent reason.
- Suddenly boomers believe in a massive increase to social security taxes to pay for them.
  I look forward to watching them die off.
  
  That's a hell of a lot of hate to admit to online.
- Ageist comments are weirdly popular on lemmy. Why is ageism encouraged when sexism and racism are not?
  
  Disclaimer: These are obviously over generalizations and don't match all individuals.
  Because it's not the age people are against, it's the generation. The boomer generation had some of the most prosperous years in American history and wasted them. The general idea is you're supposed to make the world a better place for the people that come next, and they did the opposite. They cut social systems, defunded education, let public transportation die, outsourced everything, and lined their pockets with investments in oil that are killing the planet.
  I won't blame someone for being old, but I will judge them by what they did and supported during their life. And as a whole, the boomers have a lot to answer for.
  
  Because old people are insufferable and leech off of society while continually making things worse, even well past their expiration date.

They should cut back on avocado toast and get rid of cable.
- They should get rid of that land line, you know they still have one
- Nah, they should've sold their houses to Aquaman, and move...
- Why can I almost never see the hidden replies?

Have they tried trickle down economics or maybe pulling themselves up by their bootstraps??
- Enlarged prostate and arthritis are making that difficult
  
  It’s a good thing they have an easy to use heath care system to rely on!!

Anyone here who comments about how they deserved this fate or how they got what was coming to them needs to grow the fuck up.
There are very, very few people in this world who have done something bad enough to have this kind of condition even be remotely justified. They're gonna either be on the streets or in basic Medicaid nursing homes for the rest of their lives. Many will get beaten and robbed. Many will probably just commit suicide to avoid the nightmarish conditions. And people here are celebrating this?!
Newsflash, the baby boomer generation are also people who also deserve to have someone give a shit about them. You people are sick.
- In any case, it's going to overwhelmingly not be reaganites who are going homeless. If someone spent decades shilling for austerity and had it bite them in the ass, that's one thing, but this is the economic bottom dropping out, so it's mostly not those people.
- So, the kids won't let you move in, you're running out of options, and you're here on lemmy telling us how sick we are (after how many years of boomers telling millienials we are the problem) because you're about to be homeless?
  
  Do you not think that the vitriol against boomers is just another example of getting different groups of people to hate each other so they're distracted from the real issues?
  If it's not immigrants and minorities, why not get different generations at each others throats. Seems to be working.

Ugh, I just knew what this gross comments section was gonna look like.
Look, whatever perceived collective guilt an entire cohort of humanity has in your view, it's really disgusting to celebrate and gloat over a report about the elderly becoming homeless.
When subsequent generations decide they have the right to dance on our graves for whatever it is they decide we did, I hope your ghosts aren't too whiny about it.
- If we made life significantly worse for our next generations, then they sure as hell should dance on our graves.
  
  Even those that tried their best to avoid causing problems and/or /revert the effects? You’re blaming the entirety for the crimes of the minority. This is dumb.
- The article doesn't say, but I'm assuming the demographics of these newly homeless boomers is not predominantly white male. I still say boomer remover tho so i'm not exactly above generational warfare, it's just the worst boomers get hurt the least from poverty
  
  I think you make a valid point, unlike the federated smuglord that you replied to. This is mostly going to hurt people that least deserved it, as is often the case. Yeah, I know one or two boomer chuds that will likely get hit by that, but that's not worth it overall.
- The material conditions and sociopolitical norms for a large demographic group of people were such that the majority of them actively and deliberately destroyed social safety nets and privatized everything they could in the hopes of making a quick buck and sticking it to the (slurs), and you're only upset that some people fucked over by that group are feeling schadenfreude about that group now experiencing what they had been dishing out.
  
  Tldr: collective guilt 👍
- Can't see the 11 replies. So frustrating.

I'm pretty sure there were Zero homeless boomers during the great depression.
- But also all of them had zero homes.

"over-50 demographic"
Hey, hey, hey, don't group all of us in with those assholes...

Enjoying the trickle down of piss? This is what you wanted
- Bruh they were and still are brainwashed by so much anticommunist propaganda. They had to survive in those material conditions, and if they made it they had to buy into the lie of American Exceptionalism for their prosperity and not the Dollar becoming the worlds reserve currency and propping up European Social Democracy, Dictators, and Kings. They reaped benefits they were actively being kept in the dark about, if they are waking up cause piss is tricking down their face, i will still celebrate them waking up. We need all the people we can to wake up and realize how the elite have stolen from the working class and are only taking more and more as we continue to kill our planet to give them more wealth...
  
  Cognitive dissonance is really strong if you have to question the way you were living your whole life when questioning the current situation. This makes those people far more likely to be easy prey for far-right propaganda than to be waking up, I'm afraid.
  
  Solidarity friend 🤝

- Like there aren't babyboomers who also have no say in policies and those that haven't struggled their entire lives
  The more things change, the more they stay the same
  
  As a genx I had to struggle my whole life.
  Because boomers around me were arrogant morons who didn't understand they didn't understand anything, and they weren't entitled just for being born.

if they only voted blue 😭

Don't worry, as the saying goes "pull yourself up by the dick", and maybe they will gain enough wealth to become expats and gain more in foreign wealth and sex on Southeast and East Asia..., /s (Edited for clarification)
- Instructions unclear, tried unsuccessfully multiple times and now I just feel like God hates me.
  
  You just gotta pull yourself back up harder, my friend, remember the bootstraps and remember you d***, that's the important part...

There are many books and at least one Oscar-winning movie about this

Meanwhile amount of empty homes is increasing. I WONDER WHY.

Wait, the people who caused all of this are now suffering the consequences? Oh no, whatever will at do?!

Because there were so many Baby Boomers alive during the Great Depression...
- They mean elderly during the Great Depression. It was a driving force behind Social Security.
- Yeah, that was my first thought

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