Stats l
Over 1/3 of homeless people in the U.S. consists of _____
What is 1/3 women?
One of the factors largely responsible for the emergence of the homeless crisis in the 1980s.
What is reduced government funding/tax cuts for low income housing and mental/social institutions.
The group of people more likely to be sympathetic to homeless people and believe in the effectiveness of financial and mental health policies (from a survey of 541 people)
What is younger, liberal and less wealthy women?
These groups of young people are more likely to experience homelessness.
What is LGBTQ+, black or Hispanic, or had less than a high school diploma and make less $24,000 annually.
This group of people are 2x more at odds to experience homelessness in their lifetime compared to non Hispanic white people and 2x as much as hispanic people.
What is non-hispanic black people?
One of the many causes for sudden homelessness.
What is loss of Jobs or housing, income/economic disparities, growing tenants and unavailability of housing, eviction policies favoring landlords?
People who have been homeless are more likely to support greater _______ for the homeless.
What is federal funding?
Some of the multiple ways/issues that could possibly lead a youth to become homeless.
What is family conflict, instability, parent loss, exits from a welfare system?
What is over 550,000?
The rate of homelessness in older people's lifetime for non Hispanic blacks compared to non Hispanic white is ___% to ___%
what is 16% to 8.1%
Majority of the people in a survey (79-88%) thought that these two issues are the biggest factors of homelessness.
What is mental illness and substance abuse?
These are issues that women, of all races and ages, are more vulnerable to experiencing while being homeless.
What is physical/sexual assault, mental/verbal abuse?
The increase in education ( with those having a high school diploma, some college, a college degree, or higher) will have a significantly ______ risk of _______.
What is reduced risk of homelessness?
1 in __ youth between the ages of 13 and 17 will have experienced homelessness in a year.
What is 1 in 30?
This group of people are less likely to have trust for the homeless or support federal funding to address homelessness and more likely to support laws restricting it.
What is higher income earning people?
A study from 2003 shows that around __ or __% of women experienced sexual violence at least once a year in shelter/on the streets.
What is 1/3 or 32.3%?
Housing instability and homelessness has affected this many young people in the U.S. annually. (how many?)
1 in ___ young adults will have experienced some form of homeless per year
The percentage of people surveyed that believe homeless is caused by intrinsic factors (irresponsible behavior of the person) AND structural factors (failure of the system)
What is 70%?
According to the same study, this is the rate of women that reports their experience of sexual/physical assault to the police.
What is 9.4% out of 32.3%?