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.
The survey of 169 councils and homelessness charities found a lack of accommodation for young people, with 68 per cent of respondents reporting there was not enough youth-specific housing in their area.
Forty three per cent of local authorities said they had been forced to place young people in bed and breakfast accommodation.
But the report also suggested improvements have been made to local authority homelessness services. Two thirds of local authorities say their joint working is effective or very effective, compared with about half last year.
Read more from Inside Housing: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/care/half-of-homeless-youths-rejected-by-parents/7001816.article?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Homeless Link report on Youth Homelessness: 2013: http://homeless.org.uk/sites/default/files/Youth%20Homelessness%20FINAL.pdf
