What class are you Trudy?

About this episode

Trudy Richmond discusses her challenges in securing a comfortable retirement while living in subsidized senior housing.

Trudy Richmond lives in subsidized senior housing in Burlington. She’s educated and worked all her life, but at a certain point, Trudy realized that she had too little money to pay for a comfortable retirement and too much to qualify for services that might make her retirement more comfortable. In this episode of What Class are You, Trudy talks with reporter Erica Heilman about how she negotiated a comfortable retirement for herself.

People in this episode

Host: Erica Heilman

Guest: Trudy Richmond

Topics covered

• retirement
• socioeconomic status
• senior housing
• personal finance
• interview

Keywords

• retirement
• subsidized housing
• Burlington
• personal finance
• socioeconomic status

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Burlington

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