New research has found that the annual cost of health and justice services for homeless youth in Australia is $626 million. Family violence is a major issue and a major driver of young people becoming homeless.
The Costs of Youth Homelessness in Australia project is an ARC Linkage research project undertaken by the Swinburne University Institute for Social Research, the University of Western Australia and Charles Sturt University, in partnership with The Salvation Army, Mission Australia and Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn.