This blog post is the last post in our series summarizing the findings from our new
report, Without a Home and More: Youth Count 2015, and provides policy
recommendations for preventing and ending youth homelessness based on the
characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, characteristics of
youth homelessness, assistance needed by homeless youth, and obstacles to
assistance and housing for homeless youth.
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Category Archives: Homelessness
Report Discusses Obstacles to Assistance and Housing for Homeless Youth
This blog post continues this week’s series on homeless youth and the announcement of our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015. The previous blog posts described the characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, characteristics of youth homelessness, and assistance that homeless and unstably housed youth need.
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Report Describes the Types of Assistance That Homeless Youth Need
Our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015, and previous blog posts describe the characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, and characteristics of youth homelessness from survey responses of three thousand homeless youth at fifteen locations around the nation to provide information to assist in preventing and ending youth homelessness.
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Report Displays Locations, Duration, Episodic Nature, and Safety of Youth Homelessness
In order to prevent and end youth homelessness for the 46,000 homeless youth on a given night, our previous two blog posts have described the characteristics of homeless youth and the causes and contributors to youth homelessness from our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015.
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Report of Homeless Youth Counts Around the Nation Lists the Causes of Youth Homelessness
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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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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Additional HUD and VA Funding is Needed to End Veteran Homelessness
With 47,000 homeless veterans, 16,000 unsheltered homeless veterans, and 8,000 to 11,000 additional shelter and housing beds dedicated to veterans needed to shelter every homeless veteran, additional funding is needed for the veteran programs that work to prevent and end homelessness for veterans and their families.
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Federal Goals and Funding are Needed to End Homelessness Among People Fleeing Domestic Violence
With a 58% increase in the number of domestic violence survivors without shelter over the past two years and a corresponding 90-100% increase in the number of additional shelter beds needed in each Continuum of Care (CoC), the federal government ought to establish a specific goal to prevent and end homelessness for domestic violence survivors and Congress ought to provide additional funding for shelter for domestic violence survivors so that no adult or child fleeing domestic violence has to choose between sleeping on the streets or going back to an abuser. Over the past two years, the number of domestic violence survivors without shelter increased from 16,553 to 26,205 and the number of additional shelter beds needed increased from 9,202 to 11,626 on a given night in 2014 to 18,380 to 20,453 on a given night in 2015.
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There are Not Enough Housing Beds for 26,000 to 35,000 Chronically Homeless Individuals and Families
To reach the goal of ending chronic homelessness next year, Congress should appropriate the $2.664 billion requested in HUD’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 so that the needed 25,000 new units of permanent supportive housing can be built and so that homeless persons with disabilities are not living outside on the streets for more than a year. In 2015, on a given night, there were 53,350 unsheltered chronically homeless individuals and 4,426 unsheltered chronically homeless persons in families, yet there was not enough transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, safe haven, rapid rehousing, and other permanent housing beds for 26,000 to 34,000 chronically homeless individuals without shelter nor for 600 to 1,200 chronically homeless persons in families.
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There was No Shelter Available for 99,000 to 114,000 Homeless Individuals in 2015
In 2015, there were 152,806 homeless individuals without shelter in the United States and not enough shelter beds or housing for them in at least 191 of the nation’s Continuum of Care areas. There were not enough beds in emergency shelters, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing units, other permanent housing, and safe havens for approximately 100,000 of these homeless individuals without shelter.
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