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Presentation to the Legislative Commission to End Poverty

This report presents the findings of Minnesota's statewide homeless survey, highlighting poverty, employment trends, racial disparities, mental illness, childhood abuse, disabilities, criminal history, income sources, extreme housing burden, and services used by homeless adults and youth.

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Presentation to the Legislative Commission to End Poverty

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  1. 0 Presentation to the Legislative Commission to End Poverty Greg Owen, Wilder Research September 5, 2007

  2. 0 Results based on Minnesota’s statewide homeless survey • October point-in-time study • Face-to-face interviews conducted by trained volunteers • Conducted every three years since 1991 wilderresearch.org

  3. 0 October counts of homeless adults, children, and unaccompanied youth in MN wilderresearch.org

  4. 0 Recent declines in employment Any employment Full-time employment wilderresearch.org

  5. American Indian Asian American Black White Other 0 Significant racial disparities persist MN homeless adults 2006 All MN adults Latino 7% Latino 3% wilderresearch.org

  6. High school diploma No high school diploma High school plus 0 Many have not finished high school MN homeless 25+ All MN adults 25+ wilderresearch.org

  7. 0 Recent decline in the number of children in shelters wilderresearch.org

  8. 0 Substantial rise in adults with mental illness wilderresearch.org

  9. 0 Childhood abuse is common wilderresearch.org

  10. Disabilities often occur together Proportion with none of these three disabilities:1,339 (28%) Serious mental illness 2,467 (52%) Chronic health conditions 2,104 (44%) Substance abuse disorder 1,306 (27%) 0 Total homeless adults represented by survey: 4,781 (100%) wilderresearch.org wilderresearch.org

  11. 0 Rising number of adults with criminal history wilderresearch.org

  12. Source of any income for homeless adults (and percent for which it is the main source) wilderresearch.org

  13. Disparities between income and Fair Market Rents Fair Market Rents (FMR) would consume most or all of employed homeless adults’ income • 1 bedroom apartment: FMR = 88% of median income in metro area and 69% in greater Minnesota • 2 bedroom apartment: FMR = 107% of median income in the metro area and 87% in greater Minnesota wilderresearch.org

  14. Extreme housing burden Adults who would spend over half their monthly income on a 1 bedroom apartment: wilderresearch.org

  15. Top services used in October (and proportion of users who rated them most helpful) wilderresearch.org

  16. Top services used in the last 12 months wilderresearch.org

  17. 0 Other key findings: Adults • 1 of 3 women homeless due to domestic violence • 30% of homeless adults have symptoms consistent with traumatic brain injury • 4 out of 5 families are headed by single females wilderresearch.org

  18. 0 Other key findings: Youth • 70% of unaccompanied youth have been in one or more placements • Half of all unaccompanied youth have been physically or sexually abused wilderresearch.org

  19. To obtain report(s): Overview and highlights available on our web site: www.wilderresearch.org 0 wilderresearch.org wilderresearch.org

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