Statistics
(Source: Horizons for Homeless Children, 2009)
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 over 1,200 families will be staying in publicly funded family shelters in Massachusetts. Within these families, there are 1,200 children under the age of five.
(Source: Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance).
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).