Housing Instability & Homelessness

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Housing Instability & Homelessness Resources

One in Ten Young Adults Experienced Homelessness over 12-Month Period

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago released a research brief on youth homelessness, Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness in America, National Estimates, which examines the size and characteristics of the youth population experiencing homelessness. The brief finds that one in ten young…

Study Links Housing Instability to Increased Child and Caregiver Health Risks

A study by Megan Sandel, Richard Sheward, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, and others published in Pediatrics, “Unstable Housing and Caregiver and Child Health in Renter Families,” finds that housing instability puts children and their caretakers at greater risk of poor health and material hardships.…

HUD Annual Homeless Assessment Shows Increase in Homelessness

HUD released The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress last week. The assessment reveals that 553,742 people were homeless in the United States on a single night in January 2017, a 1% increase from 2016. Some states and municipalities saw dramatic increases in homelessness over…