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Bookmark or Share- Report Youth Homelessness Overview - National Conference of State ...Each year, an estimated 4.2 million youth and young adults experience homelessness in the United States, 700,000 of which are unaccompanied minors—meaning they are not part of a family or accompanied by a parent or guardian.
- Youth and Young Adults - National Alliance to End HomelessnessYouth homelessness is often rooted in family conflict. Other contributing factors include economic circumstances like poverty and housing insecurity, racial disparities, and mental health and substance use disorders.
- Preventing and Ending Youth Homelessness in AmericaThis brief, released by the Foundation, shares facts about youth homelessness in America. It also reviews the nation’s current response to youth homelessness, the risks that young people face when homeless, and what leaders can be doing to prevent and end housing instability among young people today.
- Homelessness and Housing Instability | Youth.govYouth experience homelessness for a multitude of reasons, but involvement in the juvenile justice or child welfare systems, abuse, neglect, abandonment, and severe family conflicts all have been associated with increased risk of experiencing homelessness.
- Rates of Homelessness - Youth.govEstimates suggest that as many as 4.2 million youth and young adults (700,000 youth ages 13–17 and 3.5 million youth ages 18–25) are homeless within the United States each year. 1. Unaccompanied Youth Experiencing Homelessness. On a single night in January 2023, 34,703 unaccompanied youth were experiencing homelessness in the United States. 2
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