BEND, OREGON — Eliza Wilson is a little nervous as she draws the microphone close, but she is determined to share her life story. “I first experienced homelessness when I was 5 years old.” Wilson, who’s 36, leads programs focused on unhoused youth. In Colorado’s Montrose County, enacting an assembly’s bold ideas for improving rural day care has been “more …
Brooke Oliver's transition out of child protection was anything but smooth. Ms Oliver said she would like to see more affordable housing for young people, making independent living skills a priority for kids in the system, having support services extended past 21. Shorna Moore, from the campaign backed by 140 organisations, said children and young people were being excluded from …
Boston has experienced a significant decrease in youth homelessness in the three years since receiving $4.7 million in federal funds to combat homelessness among young adults. There has been a 44% drop in individual youth homelessness, defined as unaccompanied individuals between 18 to 24, compared to the number of young people experiencing homelessness on a single night from 2019 to …
As Western Australia faces its worst rental shortage since 2007, concerns are growing for young people on the brink of homelessness in a regional city where vacancy rates have dropped to almost zero per cent. Key points: Rising rents and low vacancy rates put young people at risk of homelessness in one of WA's biggest regional cities Some rental properties …
