GBH: Boston Public Radio features Prof. Judith Gonyea on Homelessness Among Older Women

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Following up on a segment on the GBH news series, “Priced Out: The Fight for Housing in Massachusetts,” Boston Public Radio ​​hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan are joined by GBH reporter Liz Neisloss and Prof. Judith Gonyea from Boston University School of Social Work to discuss the rising rate of homelessness among older women.

Excerpted from the GBH Boston Public Radio Podcast (Jan. 18, 2023, segment starts at approx. 55 minutes):

quotation markWe know some of the solutions to homelessness.  Do we have the political will to move on some of these solutions?” says Judith Gonyea, a professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, whose research focuses on older women and homelessness.

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Judith Gonyea is a professor and associate dean for faculty affairs at BUSSW, a senior fellow at the BU Institute for Health Systems Innovation & Policy, and a fellow and former section chair of the Gerontological Society of America. The author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, she writes extensively on the politics of aging and the cultures and conditions affecting historically disadvantaged older adults.

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