Sad News On Homeless Situation In USA
Ziggi | Apr 10, 2008 | Comments 1
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Sad news indeed. Here are just a few of the statistics from the comprehensive Second Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. You can download or view the entire report. If you’re up for it. |
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| Children represent roughly 20 percent of all people who use the shelter system.This includes unaccompanied youth and children in households with adults. Although this is a lower percentage than that of children among the U.S. poverty population (35 percent), the number of children who not only are poor but also become homeless is a cause for concern. | Fourteen percent of all homeless adults who accessed a shelter during the six- month time period are veterans. While underrepresented among the poverty population, veterans are overrepresented in the homeless shelter population when compared to the general population. |
| A significant proportion of the sheltered homeless population is disabled. Sheltered homeless adults are more than twice as likely to have a disability when compared to the general U.S. population. Approximately 38 percent of adults who used a shelter between January 1 and June 30, 2006 had a disabling condition compared to 30 percent of the poverty population and 17 percent of the total U.S. population. | Homelessness disproportionately affects minorities, especially African Americans. Minorities constitute one-third of the total U.S. population and about half of the poverty population, but about two-thirds of the sheltered homeless population. African-Americans are heavily overrepresented in the sheltered homeless population, representing about 44 percent of the sheltered homeless population but 23 percent of the poverty population and only 12 percent of the general population. |
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