1 in 5 homeless people are younger than 26
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- 11 Oct 2022
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Rudy Raes of the Brussels youth work organisation D’Broej told VRT News that "They often go and live with friends after a conflict at home. However, this is only a temporary solution". Mr Raes also notes an increase in the number of young women that are homeless.
Since 2020, the King Boudewijn Foundation has sent out teams of researcher to carryout censuses of the homeless in cities and some mixed urban/rural areas both Flanders and Wallonia.
In 2020 and 2021 the researchers carried out counts in the cities of Arlon, Charleroi, Liège (all Wallonia) Ghent, Leuven, Limburg Province and in southern West Flanders 1,208 of the 6,286 homeless adults they counted were aged 25 or younger. This 19.2% or around one in five.
Concealed homelessness
Researchers from the universities of Ghent, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve have further examined the issue of homelessness among young people in Belgium. They have carried out numerous interviews with young adults that are homeless and with professionals that work with young people.
The researchers established that Belgium’s young homeless fall into three main groups: newcomers to the country (30.4%), young adults that have left youth care facilities (24.2%) and young people that with no history of having been taken into care (29.4%). Read More...
