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JUNE 2008: New data suggest that there are more than 100,000 homeless children across Massachusetts. Read more.
Nationally approximately 500,000 children aged 0-5 years
old experience homelessness in the course of a year.
(Source: Urban Institute, 2000).
Tonight about 3,000 families will be staying in publicly funded family shelters and shelter overflow motels in Massachusetts. Within these families, there are more than 2,500 children under the age of six.
(Source: Horizons for Homeless Children's 2008 Bridging the Gap Report).
Compared with low-income housed children, homeless children experience more health problems, developmental delays, increased anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, and lower educational achievement.
(Source: National Center on Family Homelessness, 1999).
National Demographics and Trends
Massachusetts Demographics and Trends
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