"It's not a question of if they'll be out on the street, it's when they'll be out on their own."
That's the takeaway from a new report from the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, which found more than 34,700 youth under the age of 25 were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023.
That's "likely an undercount because many youth experience 'hidden' forms of homelessness living in motels/hotels or on family couches," per a press release.
Public schools in Alaska reported 1.2 million students experiencing homelessness during the 2021-2022 school year, and more than 75% of them were experiencing hidden homelessness in unstable and sometimes unsafe environments.
Nearly one-third of youth experiencing homelessness are or have been in the foster-care system at some point.
"It's not a question of if they'll be out on the street, it's when they'll be out on their own," Dr. Rebecca Jones Gaston, commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, tells the Alaska Dispatch News.
"It's not a question of if they'll be out on the street, it's when they'll be out."
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