{"id":16607,"date":"2021-03-31T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/?post_type=videos&#038;p=16607"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:38:22","slug":"elderly-homeless-woman-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/videos\/elderly-homeless-woman-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Felisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Felisa is not wearing a mask just to protect herself from the coronavirus.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She doesn&#8217;t want people to see her teeth. Felisa is one of the growing populations of elderly homeless in America. Felisa told me her real age, but publicly says she is 70+. Felisa has diabetes, which has caused dental problems that she cannot afford to get fixed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Felisa moved to California to live with her nephew, but when he lost his apartment, she ended up homeless in Los Angeles. Felisa considers herself lucky to have a van to sleep in. As a senior citizen, Felisa cannot afford to rent an apartment. Even the cost of senior housing is too much.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple \u2014 and that was before Covid-19 hit. Policymakers had decades to prepare for this momentous demographic shift, but the social safety net has only frayed under relentless political pressure to slash funding for programs that senior citizens rely on to make ends meet, like subsidized housing, food, and health care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now more than ever, your voice is needed to help end homelessness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If we do not fix the affordable housing crisis, homelessness will continue to get worse. <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/getinvolved\">Click here<\/a> to tweet, email, call, or Facebook your federal and state legislators to tell them ending homelessness and creating more affordable housing is a priority to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/streetwatchla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Street Watch LA\u00a0<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[283,274,241],"tags":[7444,13580,960,10384,15928,253,7120,10363,11915,7487,7282,16210,832,10951,515,16241,508,8438,285,919,7195,507,899,6881,13717,8332],"coauthors":[8319],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/16607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}