Chloe Lee Rowlands
Data Team Leader
Data Team Leader
As web manager of LocalNewsMatters.org, Chloe oversees the presentation of all content on this nonprofit, public service site and coordinates related social media for @baynewsmatters. She also leads a team of data journalists at Bay City News Foundation who use data to report on and create visualizations to show trends throughout the Bay Area related to health, equity and demographics. Since 2020, she has also created several Info Hubs to help readers filter relevant information on COVID-19, wildfires and library resources.
“As people start to age they feel invisible, discarded, even,” said Priscilla Essert, during our phone interview in late March....
"I worked with a lot of seniors facing a tremendous amount of stress and housing insecurity and, you know, deciding between feeding your pets, yourself, or paying your rent," said one Bay Area director of senior housing.
Many seniors in the Bay Area are already struggling to make ends meet, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
Many Bay Area seniors worry about how they can afford to live out their retirement years here — and they have reason for concern.
The retirement crisis is set to have an even larger impact on seniors of color, who will make up more than half of California’s seniors by 2035.