Aging and Homelessness Research

These resources will help bring you up to speed on the growing concern of older adults experiencing homelessness in greater numbers.

Paint By Numbers: Older Americans and Homelessness includes important statistics regarding homelessness rates among older adults.
The Age Structure of Contemporary Homelessness: Evidence and Implications for Public Policy contains a vast amount of data regarding what homelessness looks like today and the factors that contribute to it.
Housing America’s Older Adults 2023 is an in-depth report detailing demographics data, housing rates, challenges to housing and services needed for stable housing.
Toward Dignity: Understanding Older Adult Homelessness reviews causes and effects of homelessness, barriers people experiencing homelessness face to regaining housing and policy solutions that can address these challenges.
The Emerging Crisis of Aged Homelessness: Could Housing Solutions Be Funded By Avoidance of Excess Shelter, Hospital and Nursing Home Costs? is a study projecting that the cost of investments made in homelessness prevention may be balanced out by the costs saved through reduced strain on hospitals, nursing homes and homeless shelters.
Addressing Homelessness Among Older Adults is a report that further details challenges facing older adults experiencing homelessness and the services and supports available to them.

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