Adults with Disabilities Face Greater Challenges in Homeless Shelters

Adults with disabilities face many problems in homeless shelters in 2025. Shelters are not always safe or easy to use for them. Learn why.

#DisabilityInclusion, #HomelessShelters, #Accessibility, #SupportServices, #VulnerablePopulation

https://newsletter.tf/homeless-shelters-struggle-help-disabled-adults-2025/

Homeless shelters in 2025 are not meeting the needs of adults with disabilities. Many shelters are not safe or easy to use for them.

#DisabilityInclusion, #HomelessShelters, #Accessibility, #SupportServices, #VulnerablePopulation

https://newsletter.tf/homeless-shelters-struggle-help-disabled-adults-2025/

Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

"Give more respect to those unhoused
I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

Chris Holiday

Victoria"

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters-sept-16-facing-financial-disaster-lightstations-not-lifeboats-respect-for-the-unhoused-9525284

#YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

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

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unconscionable-baby-boomers-becoming-homeless-103000310.html

Experts have dubbed it a “silver tsunami.”

#America #elderly #population #homeless #nosupport #kickedout #highprices #VulnerablePopulation #PredatoryCapitalism #GovernmentCorruption