W Bruce asks where the dignity is shown for senior citizens aged in their 70s and 80s as to why they’re being forced to share facilities (bathrooms and toilets) in the types of accommodation used by younger men in homeless hostels (Letters, May 9).
Well, there could be many reasons: maybe some of these OAPs have been released after years in prison; maybe some have become homeless after being evicted from private residential homes after their money ran out.
In difficult financial times we cannot afford snobbery. I would have thought any type of accommodation is preferable to living on the streets.
Ian Hunt, Pavilion Road, Worthing
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