More seniors are homeless in Los Angeles, reports Gale Holland of the Los Angeles Times.
While the area's overall homeless population has declined, the group of people 62 and up, shot up 22%, to nearly 5,000 people.
The city and county have been slow to respond to the graying of the homeless population, advocates said. While some homeless people are aging in place, L.A.’s spiraling housing costs increasingly are driving people into homelessness for the first time at advanced ages, advocates said.
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