The survey, due out next week, reports that most councils have few specialist support services in place to help homeless young people, despite the Homelessness Act 2002 requiring them to make this group a priority.
Centrepoint's Unfit Housing for Young People survey also found that 32 per cent of councils had no plans to offer supported housing to 16- and 17-year-olds.
Anthony Lawton, chief executive of Centrepoint, said: "This report highlights the desperate need to put in place processes to help young people. Our experience shows that the longer 16- and 17-year-olds spend in an unsafe and inappropriate environment, the more hardened their attitudes can become."
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