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50% of the homeless have been in foster care.

cgriswald 4y ago
Do you have a source? With a brief search I was unable to find a credible source that supports your claim. These papers suggest that anyone involved in child-welfare as a child has a higher risk, unless they can go back home. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644395/ > Youth aging out of foster exhibit similar rates of literal homelessness and housing instability as other child welfare-involved youth, while youth who reunify after out-of-home placement in adolescence experience the lowest probability of literal homelessness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969135/ > Consistent with earlier studies, we found that youths aging out of foster care are at high risk of becoming homeless during their transition to adulthood. Specifically, 36% of the 624 Midwest Study participants whose outcomes we could observe reported at least 1 episode of homelessness by age 26 years. That figure could be as low as 31% or as high as 46% depending on the rate of homelessness among those with unobserved outcomes, which means that, at a minimum, nearly one-third of the study participants were homeless at some point after leaving foster care. Obviously these studies are talking about risk and not a percent of the population, but it does seem that being effectively a homeless child increases risk of being a homeless adult at some point. The latter study mentions several mechanisms to ameliorate the problem.
- petermcneeley 4y ago
  Here is some stats. Not sure if they are credible. https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/foster-care-and-homelessness#:~:text=Nationally%2C%2050%25%20of%20the%20homeless,spent%20time%20in%20foster%20care https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/foster-care-and-home....
kayodelycaon 4y ago
Would not surprise me. Most kids who had parents so bad they needed to be removed from them aren’t going to have had good childhoods.

Do you have a source? With a brief search I was unable to find a credible source that supports your claim. These papers suggest that anyone involved in child-welfare as a child has a higher risk, unless they can go back home. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644395/ > Youth aging out of foster exhibit similar rates of literal homelessness and housing instability as other child welfare-involved youth, while youth who reunify after out-of-home placement in adolescence experience the lowest probability of literal homelessness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969135/ > Consistent with earlier studies, we found that youths aging out of foster care are at high risk of becoming homeless during their transition to adulthood. Specifically, 36% of the 624 Midwest Study participants whose outcomes we could observe reported at least 1 episode of homelessness by age 26 years. That figure could be as low as 31% or as high as 46% depending on the rate of homelessness among those with unobserved outcomes, which means that, at a minimum, nearly one-third of the study participants were homeless at some point after leaving foster care. Obviously these studies are talking about risk and not a percent of the population, but it does seem that being effectively a homeless child increases risk of being a homeless adult at some point. The latter study mentions several mechanisms to ameliorate the problem.

petermcneeley 4y ago
Here is some stats. Not sure if they are credible. https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/foster-care-and-homelessness#:~:text=Nationally%2C%2050%25%20of%20the%20homeless,spent%20time%20in%20foster%20care https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/foster-care-and-home....

kayodelycaon 4y ago

Would not surprise me. Most kids who had parents so bad they needed to be removed from them aren’t going to have had good childhoods.