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‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain (www.theguardian.com)

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Tony Sinclair had worked all his life – but still found himself sleeping rough. Then even his tent was taken away from him.

In a way, 70-year-old Tony Sinclair was lucky to be in his tent on the day last year when the police arrived. The canvas that kept him from the elements ended up in the bin, but, unlike several of his neighbours, he was able to save his most important possessions from going the same way.

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[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago

Did you read what I wrote?

Anywya, I do my own analysis based on data released by the federal reserve along with bls reports for income distributions. Not some shiti twatter shit post.

there are lots of very comfortable Millennials

Nobody said there werent affluent millenials, who mostly who come from rich families lol

Also "lots" modifier has no meaning without data.