Each year, 75,000 young people contact homelessness services. Housing and homelessness are also the most common reasons for young people seeking out youth advice services, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The recession is making the situation worse, and yet housing policy is hardly centre stage in children's and youth policy development.
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) wants this to change. Meeting the housing needs of young people was high on the agenda at its annual conference this week.
Last August, a forum to discuss housing for young people was launched by the institute in partnership with the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), which was due to feed in to the government's green paper on housing reform.
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