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children and families experiencing homelessness. America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010 documents the numbers of homeless children in every state and ranks the states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst) using data and research on the extent of child homelessness, child well-being, risk for child homelessness, and state planning and policy activities.
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Veteran homelessness has declined by more than 55% since 2009, according to HUD, and similar progress can be made with the entire U.S. homeless population if resources are deployed similarly to ...
Homeless youth in the United States who identify as LGBTQ are more likely to be victims of crime than heterosexual homeless youth. [6] For example, a 2002 study using structured interviews of homeless youth in the Seattle area found that male LGBTQ youth were more often sexually victimized while homeless than non-LGBTQ male youth. [26]
Depending on the age group in question and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25% of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. 45% percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness.
The United Way’s Jake Hall presents the first rough numbers in Macon’s 2024 homeless census to members of the local homeless coalition a few weeks after the close of the census. It may seem ...
Discrimination against homeless people is categorized as the act of treating people who lack housing in a prejudiced or negative manner because they are homeless. Other factors can compound discrimination against homeless people including discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, age, mental illness, and other considerations.
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH)—formerly named the Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN)—is a Canadian non-profit, non-partisan research institute that works with researchers, service providers, policy makers, students and people who have experienced homelessness.