Without A Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey
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FIGURE 2<br />
Age of first homelessness experience<br />
250<br />
200<br />
150<br />
100<br />
50<br />
0<br />
< 13<br />
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24<br />
A relatively large number of respondents (9.6%, 101)<br />
revealed that their first experience of homelessness<br />
occurred when they were children under the age of 13.<br />
While we did not collect data on the context of these<br />
early experiences of homelessness, it is plausible that<br />
a significant percentage of this group first lost their<br />
housing in the context of family homelessness.<br />
9.6%<br />
experienced homelessness<br />
for the first time under<br />
the age of 13<br />
“I have slept in abandoned buildings, got arrested for<br />
staying there. Moved to my grandma’s, sister took over<br />
the rent and kicked me out. Moved into a friend’s place<br />
then they moved and I was thrown out with no place to<br />
go. Stayed outside of three years, moved into another<br />
apartment then moved to a house and we all got evicted.<br />
And I moved and there was a house fire and we all got<br />
told to move and that was about two months ago.”<br />
MAN, 23<br />
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