No Place to Grow Old | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A growing crisis unfolding quietly across America: the increasing number of seniors facing homelessness. Set in Portland | dG1fUnVOcW4yY1JoSmc

Transcript

00:00All right, let's go.

00:05I was born in 52, so in 52 Jackson, Mississippi was not the kind of place that African Americans

00:11wanted to grow up in.

00:15Growing up in New York City was interesting.

00:18I grew up poor.

00:20I used to sit and watch the bridge and know that there was something over the bridge more.

00:27You know, values were an interesting thing.

00:30I didn't really have any imparted to me from my parents.

00:33I had to come up with my own.

00:36I kind of raised myself.

00:38I read a lot of books, so my childhood was different, I would say, than most people's.

00:52This is a country that should be judged by the conditions of its most vulnerable citizens.

00:59If that's how this society is being judged, we are not doing well.

01:03The ultimate expression of the housing crisis is the expanding number of older adults who

01:07are homeless.

01:08The idea that we are allowing people to age into homelessness is deeply distressing.

01:17It's gone from cutting back on all these other necessities to perhaps a substandard house

01:22to no house.

01:26It's overwhelming to try to find housing on your own.

01:31A lot of these places growing up, they cost too much to even afford to rent.

01:38Nobody wants to grow old, in general, definitely nobody wants to grow old homeless.

01:45They think we're out here just because we're stupid, or we're drug addicts, or whatever.

01:50There's a lot more to it than that.

01:55I have a back story, I am someone, you know, I'm someone's daughter, I'm someone's wife,

02:01I'm someone's mom, I'm someone's sister, you know?

02:07Just because I was homeless, you know, didn't erase any of that.

02:12Sorry.