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Without access to affordable housing, low-income older adults are forced onto the streets.
Homelessness is on the rise in Nashville, Tenn. Between 2022 and 2023, there's been an 11% increase among those experiencing homelessness. Many of these individuals are over the age of 50, and they are experiencing health conditions decades earlier than their housed neighbors. At the heart of the problem is a lack of affordable housing, and low-income people are paying the price.
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Unhoused Promo
Preview: Episode 25 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Homelessness is on the rise in Nashville, Tenn. Between 2022 and 2023, there's been an 11% increase among those experiencing homelessness. Many of these individuals are over the age of 50, and they are experiencing health conditions decades earlier than their housed neighbors. At the heart of the problem is a lack of affordable housing, and low-income people are paying the price.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(slow dramatic music) - I'm 54 and right now I feel like I'm in my úsixties to seventies.
Everybody thinks that a lot of us out here that are homeless is out here because, oh, they're on drugs.
I'm out here because I got sick and had to leave a job that I'd done for 30 years and can't do no more.
Now, trying to get anything or do anything, it's a struggle.
It's a fight.
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