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The Face of Homelessness
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An all too familiar picture.
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Is this what you think of when you think of the homeless?
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Think Again.
39 percent of the homeless population is young people under 18.*
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Family homelessness is the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population, accounting for 41 percent of the nation’s homeless population in 2009*
*http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/index.html
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Without our help…..
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4%3%
17%
33%
43%
Single Men Families with Children Single WomenUnaccompanied Minors Unknown
Estimates of the number of homeless children range from 800,000 to 1.2 million, and recent estimates state that 1 in 50 children in the United States are homeless.*
(National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009).
What’s more, at least half of homeless children are under the age of 5.*
(National Center on Family Homelessness, 1999) *