Greatly impedes an individual or a family’s ability to properly inhabit and function in their shelter, undermining their health and productivity in work and school.
The average young adult lives in their parents’ home
- 58% of youth live with their parents
- 59% of parents financially support their children until age 29
- 60% of this financial support goes towards furniture, homewares, and other housing costs
Most foster youth do not have access to parental support
- Limited to no financial support from family
- Usually without access to hand-me-down furniture and basic housewares
- Aged-out foster youth are left without the most basic of human rights…a home
