Number of homeless elders in NYC soars amid affordable housing crisis: report

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