About 315,000 older New Yorkers are on waiting lists for affordable apartments in federally constructed buildings reserved for people 62 and older, up from about 230,000 in 2016.
NEW YORK, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of single adults aged 65 and older in New York City's main shelter system more than doubled from 2014 to 2022, growing nearly three times as quickly as the number of younger single adults in shelters, said a recent local nonprofit organisation report.
There were about 1,700 people older than 65 in single-adult shelters, which house a vast majority of the older New Yorkers who are homeless, during the fiscal year ending in June 2022, up from about 700 eight years earlier. The share of residents in those shelters who were older than 65 increased to 8 percent from 5 percent, said The New York Times citing a report from the nonprofit group LiveOn NY.
About 315,000 older New Yorkers are on waiting lists for affordable apartments in federally constructed buildings reserved for people 62 and older, up from about 230,000 in 2016, according to the group. The typical wait is six years; many buildings have longer waits.
The city's Department of Social Services said on Thursday that during the 10-month period ending in April, nearly 650 single adults older than 65 moved from shelters to subsidized permanent housing. This was more than in any fiscal year since 2019, the city said.
An increasing number of older New Yorkers are just a job loss, an uninsured illness or a real-estate flip away from homelessness, LiveOn NY said. The group studied data from the city departments of homelessness and housing and conducted a survey of property managers to produce the report. ■
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