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Poverty And Being Homeless

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The experience of living in poverty and being homeless can have serious and lasting impact on young people and families. Children’s Society report in 2010 states that young people and families who are destitute are surviving in appalling conditions and are made vulnerable to exploitation because they do not have adequate support, access to basic essentials and a safe place to live. They rely on friends for food and a place to stay and they experience significant health problems. Some young people and families who are destitute expose themselves to enormous physical and psychological risk by engaging in transactional and commercial sex work as survival strategies.

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