How America’s HOMELESS Women Over 60 Eat, Sleep & Survive in Their Cars | Full Documentary

How America’s HOMELESS Women Over 60 Eat, Sleep & Survive in Their Cars | Full Documentary It is 5:15 in the morning in a supermarket car park off a four-lane road, and a woman named Linda is already awake. She has been awake since a little after four, because that is when her body wakes her now, whether she wants it to or not. She is 68 years old. She is lying on a sheet of plywood where the back seat of a 2009 Toyota Corolla used to be, under three fleece blankets and a sleeping bag, with her shoes tucked inside the bag so they will not be frozen when she puts them on. In the next 20 minutes she will fold the blankets, pull the grey foam panels out of the back windows, brush her hair in the rear-view mirror, and drive four miles to a gym where a membership costs $15 a month and the showers open at six. By 7:30 she will be behind a counter at a pharmacy, where she works three days a week. Nobody she works with knows where she slept. Linda was a bookkeeper for 34 years. She was married for 41 of them. Her husband died three years ago. Linda isn’t one specific person. She’s assembled from what older women living in vehicles have told researchers, outreach workers and reporters over the last few years. So are the other women you’ll meet in this film. But every detail of their nights is real, and there are far more of them out there tonight than almost anybody realises.