Republican proposals to privatize Social Security and Obama’s deficit commission’s rumored proposal to raise Social Security eligibility to age 70 are both unnecessary and completely insane.

Now we read in this report that homelessness among seniors is projected to increase by 33%!

As such, homelessness is projected to increase by 33 percent from 44,172 in 2010 to 58,772 in 2020 and will more than double between 2010 and 2050, when over 95,000 elderly persons are projected to be homeless.