Province grants funding to house 13 homeless youth

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Province grants funding to house 13 homeless youth

GUELPH – Thirteen new housing units for youth experiencing homelessness are coming to Guelph thanks to provincial funding for which the county almost didn’t apply. “Our staff had a very short window to put these applications in,” county councillor David Anderson, chair of the joint social services and land ambulance committee,  told council on Jan.…

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Homelessness among minors is only noticed when it is too late: when the young person no longer has a roof over his head. Can it be done differently? In Australia they found the answer: look in the classroom. Homeless children and young people were an invisible group in the Netherlands for a long time. However, the latest count of homeless people, carried out in 55 municipalities, showed that one in five was younger than eighteen years old – that…