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Youth homelessness in UK - Inside Housing article

An Inside Housing article highlights family problems as a major trigger for youth homelessness in the UK.

Nearly half of young people who become homeless have been made to leave home because their parents no longer want to live with them, a report has shown.

Research by Homeless Link indicates of those young people approaching councils with homelessness applications, 44 per cent said their parents were no longer willing to house them, with 14 per cent saying a friend or relative would not accommodate them.

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Collective complaint FEANTSA v. the Netherlands (86/2012)

In July 2012, FEANTSA lodged a collective complaint against The Netherlands alleging that The Netherlands' legislation, policy and practice regarding sheltering the homeless is not compatible  with Articles 13 (right to social and medical assistance), 16 (right of the family to social, legal and economic protection), 17 (right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection), 19 (right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance), 30 (right to protection against poverty and social exclusion), 31 (right to housing), taken a

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