Youth Homelessness

In affordablehousingaction.org's early days, we carried stories about school boards that were trying to get into the housing business because they were having a hard time attracting teachersTry: San Jose...

Sleeping in a university library is usually an illegal use of educational facilities, quite probably only possible thanks to good-hearted blind eyes of university staff who recognize it's hard...

Unfortunately, the United States never placed the 'right to adequate housing' in its Constitution. Are you unable to buy or rent even the most basic shelter? Too bad. America...

The article linked to this post is a good example of bringing the voice of lived experience to research. The research subjects in the study are young people who...

This post is about preventing young people from becoming homeless. Preventing homelessness at a young age reduces a person's chances of becoming homeless as an adult. There is substantial...

What price shelter? It sure as heck doesn't come free. Whether you rent or own what many countries in the world see adequate shelter as an basic human right,...

What helpful advice could you give to a young black adult who had experienced homelessness when young, been raised in a difficult relationship by a single mother, while his...

A three-post series explores how we as humans come to grips with social issues. The setting is Australia, where cost-benefit analysis has been applied to two different issues. This...

Surely, the problem is beyond managing! We're talking about the growing number of older teenagers and young adults who are unhoused in the United States. Some no longer have family...

Growing up poor culminated in homelessness as a teenager for Ava Truckey. Today, with a child of her own, has her capability as a parent been permanently damaged by...

Wales is in the middle of a pilot project that aims to help young adults who have been wards of the crown to avoid homelessness. Guaranteeing a basic income...

Affordablehousingaction.org has been advocating that homelessness must be treated as a national war, not a penny ante local squabble to be solved by local activists and learner politicians knocking...

It's easier to pay lip service to 'adequate housing' if you can drag the costs down. The issue arises for a government tasked with arranging a young person's care....

It may seem strange to case the world for bad news, rather than good news, in order to tackle social problems. Education is one field where observing the trials...

Not everyone imagines lifelong happiness with a string of fancy degrees (as well as a massive debt). Career? Maybe some kind of high powered financier, spiriting wealth out of...

The human right to adequate housing has been slowly gaining world-wide popularity. These days, most countries are prepared to pay at least lip service to the concept. But adequate housing...

Some folks might want to help people who are homeless, but would like do more than sustain a seemingly never-ending parade of marginal existence and misery. For those keen to...

A great deal of so-called 'woke' energy around the world has been mobilizing to demand more recognition for 'trans' rights, together with legal mechanisms to create a physical and...

Social and health issues dramatically influence homelessness. It's hardly a surprise that a teenager aging out of care on one hand, and a senior citizen with a fixed income...

How would you feel if a paramedic advised you to "call us when somebody dies?" Confused: I thought paramedics were there to save lives. Angry: that paramedic should be...

It's truly astounding the cruelty that groups of self-important, out of touch bureaucrats and/or politicians can inflict on their fellow humans: "Homeless youth are nothing but a nuisance. Let's torture...

An article from New Mexico (linked below) describes an appalling systems failure. Young people in care (the care of the state) are not getting access to mental health and/or...

In America, large numbers of homeless children do not receive schooling support to which they are entitled. Federal law requires it, but nationally, a considerable number of education districts...

Look skyward to find Capricorn, the heavenly goat, among the stars. Look to Youtube and search for 'baby goat.' After a little browsing you'll have some idea of capricious...

Studies have shown that if you become homeless as a young person, you are more likely to continue experiencing homelessness throughout adult life. So is there a way of providing...

A new-born youth housing project in St. John, New Brunswick is looking towards 1994 for a successful working model. That's when the RAFT opened as a youth drop-in centre...

In child development, ACE refers to Adverse Childhood Experience. Witnessing violence or being sexually abused are two examplesMore details are available at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:...

You have to hand it to health researchers: they are scrupulous when it comes to research. So when an article that documents community-based research comes along, it's a great...

This post draws together two very different stories from Wales. The country is part of the United Kingdom, but plotting its own course to address rising homelessnessFor other examples...

A Toronto homelessness story carries us firmly into the land of unexpected results, by way of understanding the evolving nature of homelessness. One description of homelessness is most convenient for...

This post is about data and statistics. It’s also about homelessness among youth and young adults. Why data and statistics? Some of us swear by them, some are skeptical and...

The following story was born when videographer Claire Hannah Collins made a proposal to the Los Angeles Times. As the video developed, Gale, a Staff Writer at the Los...

The headline on this post can be interpreted two ways. The confusion is deliberate. One important achievement is 'graduating' from a shelter into housing. With housing rental costs as high...

How can you help if you're only fifteen? Suppose you became aware that some fifteen-year-olds are both like you, and profoundly NOT like you, because they are already mothers...

Sure, everyone was young once. That doesn't really qualify everyone or just anyone to best guard youth from homelessness. When it comes to the value of 'lived experience,' youth who...

They're young, sitting together laughing on the sidewalk. If only you could do the same, toss aside life's burdens for a few moments, be footloose and carefree! Be careful what...

A CBS 8 San Diego video available on YouTube somewhat breathlessly explores three homelessness issues at once, all of which are interesting once you are used to the frenetic...

City Hope St. Louis provides homeless shelter and resources in St. Louis, Missouri. Like many organizations that operate shelters for people who are homeless, their hand-to-mouth income flow requires...

Recently, we referred to an article from Cincinnati that discussed the above average numbers of students in the Cincinnati Public School system who are homeless. There the concern focussed...

Consider a reasonably common school class size — say thirty students. Can we assume equality of opportunity to all those who are served by the same set of teachers...

In the world of homelessness, young people can easily fall between the service cracks. Often resilient, inclined to bravado in the face of life's setbacks, unfortunately not all youth...

This post reports on an unexpected consequence of students forced to work from home — a youth homeless shelter forced to curtail activities due to lack of staff. A little...

Yup. Some youth are happily homeless, backpacking towards adulthood, one friendly host-with-a-couch at a time. For a great many, however, homelessness is an uninvited nightmare. The young person may have...

The United Nations Economic Commission For Europe (UNECE) has just recognized the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness as a Centre of Excellence on Youth HomelessnessBoth Canada and the United States...

The stay at home orders, which were a key strategy to managing COVID 19, drew widespread attention to the violence that occurs at home. This post discusses who is...

So, some individual or family is stuck living on the streets, couch surfing, or making the best of dormitory life in a shelter. What more is there to understand,...

Family Promise of Clark County, Washington has teamed up with local schools to operate a learning centre for children and youth who are experiencing homelessness. The learning centre provides...

This post is the final one in a three part series of resources to plan for a COVID recovery that includes ending homelessness for young people and preventing it...

This post is the second of a three part series of resources to plan for a COVID recovery that includes ending homelessness for young people.For the first article in...

This is the first of three posts about young people are who are experiencing homelessness. Each one highlights resources for planners and front line workers to use. The second...

Witnessing young people experiencing homelessness in Vancouver led to the creation of Zero Ceiling, which is based in Whistler, British Columbia. Zero Ceiling’s programs to support homeless youth have...

Young people who are wards of the state achieve instant adulthood when they reach the age of majority and "age out of care".Here's a US based post on this...

In 1987, thanks to the McKinney-Vento Act, US high school students who experienced homelessness began to receive supports to continue with their schooling. Over time, the definition of homelessness...

Homelessness is not something to wish on anyone. This is especially true for young people. Instead, we should put a priority on preventing young people from experiencing homelessness in...

On one hand: CBS's Anderson Cooper does a so-called 'progressive' take on Seattle's homelessness crisis. "Rent Is Obscene Here": The Issues Forcing People In Seattle Onto The Street And on...

Chicago teachers settled their recent strike in part by ignoring their legal requirement to bargain only for wages and hours and other strictly technical issues related to their employment...

Only a month or so away from the 100th anniversary of the journal edition pictured above, it's worth scanning the column of articles featured within it. The final one?...

The most vulnerable citizens are those who receive no pay through lack of available work, or unable to work at all. Only slightly more secure are those who support...

Young people approaching the age of majority are in a time of transition: finishing high school, starting post-secondary education, or employment, leaving home. Young people aging out of foster care...

In our media scans, we see calls for more affordable housing daily. As new groups of people with affordability issues come to light (firefighters, health workers and teachers, for...

Students at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia teamed up to prepare a report that should help young people to leave homelessness. The students identify six different sets of experiences...

America! That mythical land of equal opportunity. When opportunity is equal, if you aren't succeeding then you just aren't trying, or so some would have the rest of us...

Toronto is the fourth largest metropolitan area on the North American Continent. With something of a social conscience, it has developed a Housing First program (known locally as Streets...

Youth homelessness is on the rise everywhere (as is virtually every kind of homelessness). But when it comes to appearances, young people can take advantage of the low expectations...

What do you say to a Howard University student who feels she is facing a choice between homelessness or heading elsewhere to school? If you're speaking from the lofty heights...

Young and impatient. Fed up with childhood. At risk of abuse and assault. All are contributing to a youth homelessness crisis in Bristol, UK, a thriving city with an...

"Affordable and stable housing plays a critical role in supporting the health and wellbeing of children." This is the conclusion reached by a recent report by the American National Housing...