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NEW YORK - AT least 3,800 of the people in New York City's homeless population are under age 25, according to a new survey.
A publicly funded report by the Empire State Coalition said a large number of those young people had been in state or city care at some point before they ended up on the street. About 28 per cent had been in the foster care system. Four in 10 had spent time in jail or a juvenile detention facility.
A disproportionate number, 28 per cent, were gay or bisexual.
The group's findings were announced on Friday by the City Council, which paid for the study. The estimates were based on surveys of 1,000 young people last summer.
They survey found that while a majority of those young homeless went nightly to city shelters, 42 per cent slept instead on the street, in the public transit system, or in empty buildings. -- AP
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