Baby Boomers Swell Ranks of Homeless in Canada

| September 18, 2008 | 0 Comments

A study in the Vancouver Globe & Mail reveals a troubling trend: that an increasing number of baby boomers are homeless in western Canada.

“It’s the boomers. That’s what we’re starting to see. Boomers are becoming seniors,” says Alice Sundberg, the co-chair of Metro Vancouver’s steering committee on homelessness. “These are people [who] had wild lives and they got themselves into drug problems early in life, and now they’re more likely to be marginalized.”

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