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UCSF briefing: California homelessness is aging and increasingly tied to behavioral health
Summary
A UCSF researcher told a Senate subcommittee that more Californians are living unsheltered and that homelessness is increasingly affecting older adults; behavioral health needs are common and often develop after people become homeless.
Mark Jones, policy director at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, told a California State Senate subcommittee on May 20 that about 170,000 people experience homelessness in the state daily and that 78% of them are unsheltered.
Jones said the median age of unsheltered adults in California is 47 and that 39% of people 50 and over first experienced homelessness after age 50. He told the panel that the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPA) shows older adults are an expanding share of the unhoused population.…
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