{"id":23799,"date":"2024-12-27T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23799"},"modified":"2024-12-27T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T13:05:01","slug":"for-homeless-seniors-finding-stable-housing-takes-a-village-and-a-lot-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23799","title":{"rendered":"For homeless seniors, finding stable housing takes a village \u2014 and a lot of luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Aaron Bolton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years ago, Kim Hilton and his partner walked out of their home in Columbia Falls, Montana, for the last time. The house had sold, and the new landlord had raised the rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They couldn&#8217;t afford it. Their Social Security payments couldn&#8217;t cover the cost of any apartments in northwest Montana&#8217;s Flathead Valley.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/12\/27\/nx-s1-5240042\/homeless-seniors-shelter-montana-disability-unhoused-gray-wave-housing-prices\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/12\/27\/nx-s1-5240042\/homeless-seniors-shelter-montana-disability-unhoused-gray-wave-housing-prices\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Aaron Bolton for NPR) Two years ago, Kim Hilton and his partner walked out of their home in Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,587],"tags":[1628,94,410],"class_list":["post-23799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelessness","category-rural-health","tag-homeless","tag-older-adults","tag-rural-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23800,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions\/23800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}