{"id":23891,"date":"2025-01-17T07:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23891"},"modified":"2025-01-17T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:53:46","slug":"for-homeless-seniors-getting-into-stable-housing-takes-a-village-and-a-lot-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23891","title":{"rendered":"For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village \u2014 And a Lot of Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Aaron Bolton, MTPR for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. \u2014 Over two years ago, Kim Hilton and his partner walked out of their home for the final time. The house had sold, and the new landlord raised the rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They couldn\u2019t afford it. Their Social Security payments couldn\u2019t cover the cost of any apartments in northwestern Montana\u2019s Flathead Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilton\u2019s partner was able to move into her daughter\u2019s studio apartment. There wasn\u2019t enough space for Hilton, so they reluctantly split up.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/homeless-seniors-gray-wave-services-overloaded\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/homeless-seniors-gray-wave-services-overloaded\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" 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, MTPR for KFF Health News) COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. \u2014 Over two years ago, Kim Hilton and his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,246],"tags":[247,94],"class_list":["post-23891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-homelessness","tag-homelessness","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23891","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=23891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23894,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23891\/revisions\/23894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}