As our previous blog post discussed, there are 46,000 homeless unaccompanied and
parenting youth and 17,000 of these youth are without shelter and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness has recently stated that better tools and integration of data are needed to improve the understanding of the characteristics and needs of youth who are experiencing homelessness. In our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015, we integrated the data from the fifteen known surveys of homeless and unstably housed youth completed last year and analyzed and summarized the characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, characteristics of youth homelessness, assistance available to and needed by homeless youth, and barriers experienced by homeless youth in accessing assistance.
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Category Archives: Youth Homelessness
Report of Homeless Youth Counts Around the Nation Shows the Precarious Situations of Homeless Youth
Nationwide, there are more than 46,000 homeless youth. Across the country, 46,808 homeless unaccompanied youth and parenting youth were identified on a single night in January 2015. On that night, there were 36,907 homeless unaccompanied youth and 9,901 homeless parenting youth with 17,069 unaccompanied youth (including 2,380 children and 14,689 young adults) and 439 parenting youth without shelter.
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The Proposed FY2017 Budget Provides Significant Funding to End Homelessness But Should Provide Shelter for All
The President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 maintains housing and homeless assistance funding dedicated to ending veteran homelessness, proposes homeless assistance funding to end chronic homelessness in 2017, and proposes housing and homelessness assistance funding to end homelessness for families and youth in 2020. Given the critical importance of shelter, the budget should provide enough resources to provide shelter for every homeless person without shelter and housing and homelessness assistance funding targeted to other homeless individuals.
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As in 2014, the 2015 Point-in-Time Count Showed That More Than 13,000 Additional Shelter Beds are Needed for Unaccompanied Homeless Young Adults in 47 States
On a given night in 2015, there were 14,689 unaccompanied homeless youth between the ages of 18 and 24 without shelter in the United States and not enough shelter beds to give them shelter in each Continuum of Care (CoC). To have enough shelter for each unaccompanied homeless young adult in each Continuum of Care, an additional 13,059 to 13,526 shelter beds are needed in emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing.
Continue reading As in 2014, the 2015 Point-in-Time Count Showed That More Than 13,000 Additional Shelter Beds are Needed for Unaccompanied Homeless Young Adults in 47 States
Not Enough Shelters for Unaccompanied Homeless Children in 21 to 23 States
On a given night in 2015, there were 2,380 unaccompanied homeless children without shelter in the United States and not enough shelter beds to give them shelter in each Continuum of Care (CoC). To have enough shelter for each unaccompanied homeless child in each Continuum of Care, an additional 1,758 to 1,896 shelter beds are needed in emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing.
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Without Shelter: 20,000 Homeless Youth are Left on the Street
The nation’s comprehensive strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness, Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, has a goal to prevent and end homelessness for youth and children in 2020. Opening Doors was amended in June in part to define the end to homelessness as when every community will have the capacity to quickly identify and engage people at risk of and experiencing homelessness, prevent the loss of housing, provide immediate access to shelter, and quickly connect people to housing assistance and services to help them achieve and maintain stable housing. Continue reading Without Shelter: 20,000 Homeless Youth are Left on the Street