More than 120,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 25 faced homelessness before the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2019/20, according to Centrepoint’s Youth Homelessness Databank.
Centrepoint’s latest strategy aims to create change so that no child born this year will face homelessness when they turn 16.
Challenges currently faced by young people, and how to alleviate them, have been set out in a new document entitled Change the Story: Ending Youth Homelessness All Together.
Changes to employment, housing and welfare legislation, as well as the implementation of prevention interventions, could see the number of young people facing a housing crisis significantly reduced, the charity says.
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