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Youth homelessness - the issue affects every community. Every youth deserves a home. Unfortunately, there are barriers to stability, including poverty, mental health issues, addiction and substance use, sexual and ethnic discrimination, family conflict, prejudice, intolerance, violence, abuse, and stigma. Youth Against Youth Homelessness is a committee of youth committed to alleviating youth homelessness through education and community engagement.

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Homelessness is an indicator of the growing gap between the rich and the poor.

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Social activists say that the decline in stable employment opportunities for those with few skills has reduced the ability of many people affording housing

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They have limited knowledge, skills, and very low self-esteem

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45% of of homeless youth are working, bu at low paying transient jobs

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Education is disrupted when they leave home

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Street youth have a mortality rate 13 times higher than other youth.

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More likely to suffer from infections, diseases, malnutrition, and sexually transmitted diseases.

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Most homeless youth depend of selling drugs, or sex to earn enough money to cover their basic needs.

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Article 2- Homeless Children and Runaways in the U.S.

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Article 2- Homeless Children and Runaways in the U.S.

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Can't form a productive life structure

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- Disruptive family conditions
- Residential Instability
- Leave home to work and live independently but homeless after

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26000 people used homeless shelters in Toronto in 1996, and the number of youth had increased by 80%

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Homelessness is defined as having no fixed place to sleep at night.