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Youth homelessness has risen 40% in five years, says UK charity

Centrepoint estimates 121,000 homeless or at risk, with analysis showing black people disproportionally affected

Youth homeless in the UK has increased by an estimated two-fifths in five years, rising to more than 120,000, a leading charity director has warned, as fresh analysis suggests that black households are likely to be disproportionally affected

Seyi Obakin, chief executive at Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, said its estimates show 86,000 young people in the UK presented to their local authority as homeless or at risk in 2016/17, and that the figure increased to 121,000 in 2019/20.

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