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Millennial here. Us, too.

Alternate headline, sub header combo:

"Gen Z aware of main cause of homelessness.

Boomers and Forbes editors remain unconvinced"

I do not fear becoming homeless. The state should fear my homelessness as it will only signify the next phase of my radicalization.

“some” …

EDIT: and yet another article that ignores the generation between millenials and boomers …

Spent 6 years sofa surfing, its less a fear and more a reality for some. Sadly in most western countries homelessness is seen as a punishment and housing programmes stipulate no alcohol, no drugs, curfew. all of which put people back on the streets.

Just stay tuned for the show when/if the Orange Fascist gets into office again. Cuts to Medicare, SS, and a dismantling of the ACA will be top priorities, and then you're going to see huge increases in the numbers of homeless old folks. Grandpa and Grandma trudging their carts down the road, loaded with the sum or their earthly possessions, heading for the next place to sit next to traffic with a cardboard sign or heading for the nearest tent-city that hasn't been ripped apart by the cops. These income/benefits cuts (and similar - think Medicaid) will be savage for younger people too, but younger people can at least, usually, at minimum, get some kind of crappy job whereas older people, the vast majority of whom are on small, fixed incomes, will very often be unemployable due to illness or injury or (as should be obvious to anyone who pays attention) age discrimination. If that sub-minimum-wage job office job can be done by 20yo Sally or 70yo Sam, if that house-painting job can be done by 20yo Chad or 60yo Cindy, guess who's going to get the job and who's going to be unable to rent even a single-room flat because of no job, no income.

I point this out mainly because one seldom encounters articles that are sympathetic to the financial plights of older people - they're assumed to be all out playing golf at The Club all day, eating restaurant meals afterwards, taking long vacations whenever, just because, and living in comfortable, fully-owned houses with incomes that support their upkeep as well as the upkeep+use of that brand new gigantic RV parked outside. Oldster unemployment and poverty and medical debt and, ultimately Oldster homelessness, is just outside of the narrative.

only some? i was in fifth grade worrying about getting a job and how i'd stay alive otherwise. we need FDR back god fucking dammit. give us another WPA.

In one of its most famous projects, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.[1] The five projects dedicated to these were the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP). In the Historical Records Survey, for instance, many former slaves in the South were interviewed; these documents are of immense importance to American history. Theater and music groups toured throughout the United States and gave more than 225,000 performances. Archaeological investigations under the WPA were influential in the rediscovery of pre-Columbian Native American cultures, and the development of professional archaeology in the US.

The cost-of living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers ~~genuinely fear becoming~~ are homeless

FTFY

As a single GenX, this is my biggest fear. I have never been homeless but I have been very close a couple of times. My rent is about half my take home pay and I'm sure it is going up again this year.

My greatest fear is financial crisis. To an irrational degree where I expect to commit suicide in a panic. I’m in therapy, don’t worry.

Fear becoming? You mean ARE becoming

What... genuinely fear homelessness... such a new concept!

I have news for you, as an old millennial, it's not just G Zers.

The whole system is broken, we can't fix it, we must tear it down.

As an unemployed millennial, I also fear this. I've been looking into how to survive as a homeless man and it doesn't look very enticing.

Can we avoid this by giving Gen X offhanded advice about their personal finances?

Get a roommate, stop buying lattes, learn to cook, etc.

I know boomers that are one injury/emergency away from being homeless.

I empathize for zoomers because they never had a chance of having a good time, but this instability isn't currently unique to their generation.

It's too bad we can't ban BlackRock, Vanguard etc..

Genx here, and many of us are one or two serious mishaps away from homelessness.

I moved back in with my parents. Fuck living alone if it means killing myself with work just to survive. Fuck that.

The way I see it, don't let your superiors know you're worried about that kind of stuff because if you're working for a shitty enough company, they will probably hold that over your head.

Oh, you're not performing well enough. You don't want to be fired and homeless, do you?

Don't know if that's something they can legally do to you, but I wouldn't put it past a lot of companies to do that to ensure you don't leave or do anything they don't want, like ask for a raise or looking for another job on company time.