The Challenges of Older Adults in New York City: A Detailed X-Ray Report by AARP

The Challenges of Older Adults in New York City: A Detailed X-Ray Report by AARP

The list of challenges for older adults in the Big Apple is not short: lack of affordable housing, age discrimination in the workplace, gaps in access to technology, food insecurity, inadequate coordination of services among government agencies, inaccessible public transportation, dangerous streets, social isolation, deficiencies in the provision of care, needs for centers for the … Read more

The Unstoppable Displacement of the Poorest in New York: A Crisis for Aging Working Class Populations

The Unstoppable Displacement of the Poorest in New York: A Crisis for Aging Working Class Populations

Faced with the unstoppable displacement trend of the poorest in some locations in New York, the rent increases and the crippling affordable housing crisis, that intersects with the increase in the elderly population in the Big Apple, there are hopeless scenarios and concrete about the limited possibilities that working class populations, who in a few … Read more

The Housing Crisis and Displacement of New York’s Elderly Population: A Looming Disaster

The Housing Crisis and Displacement of New York’s Elderly Population: A Looming Disaster

Faced with the unstoppable displacement trend of the poorest in some locations in New York, the rent increases and the crippling affordable housing crisis, that intersects with the increase in the elderly population in the Big Apple, there are hopeless scenarios and concrete about the limited possibilities that working class populations, who in a few … Read more