New York

NUBIA Chavez and Manuel Acuña have been bouncing from rental to rental around New York City like millennials. They recently decamped to a US$700-a-month room in a Queens apartment, with a shared bathroom and no access to the kitchen except to make coffee.

But Ms Chavez, a housekeeper, and Mr Acuña, a retired building porter, are not in their 20s. They are 65 and 72, and they say they are tired - of the moving, of the lack of permanency and of a lifestyle not suited to their age.