Maggie Maybe<p>This is interesting. I understand why older people are becoming homeless at higher rates since 2020, but I don’t understand why that age group historically has been more homeless during the decades studied.<br>Weird.</p><p>“First, across all decades, the peak age groups in the distribution (34-36 in 1990; 40-42 in 2000; 49-51 in 2010; and 55-57 in 2020) are composed of persons born from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, demonstrating a persistent cohort effect. Second, older persons composed a substantially larger share of the sheltered population in 2020 relative to earlier years; in 2020, those aged 60 years and above accounted for 18.8% (17 950 of 95 251) of the sheltered adult male population compared with 7.1% in 2000 (5830 of 82 420), a roughly 3-fold increase in absolute numbers.”</p><p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2828494" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman</span><span class="invisible">etworkopen/fullarticle/2828494</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/JAMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JAMA</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/sudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sudy</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/boomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boomers</span></a></p>