HOUSING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the YMCA's There's No Place Like Home campaign; recognises that 25 per cent. of rough sleepers are aged 18 to 25, that two-thirds of young homeless people left school with no qualifications and that at any one time 240,000 young people are homeless in the United Kingdom; recognises that the problem is most acute in London; urges Her Majesty's Government to recognise that there is an inadequate supply of safe, affordable accommodation in many parts of the United Kingdom for young people; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to support positive initiatives that improve the level of information about where to turn in order to avoid homelessness.