86,000 Young People In The UK Homeless Or At Risk

At least 86,000 young people across the UK are estimated to have sought help from local authorities in 2016-2017 because they were homeless or at risk of homelessness, according to new research released by Centrepoint. The LGA says the findings further reinforce its ‘crucial’ case for councils being able to borrow to build new homes and adapt welfare reforms to prevent homelessness from happening in the first place. Centrepoint bases its figures on 217 Freedom of Information responses from local authorities in England, a robust estimate for the 109 that did not provide this data, and data from the devolved nations. Read more on 24housing.

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