Accounting for seven percent of the general youth population, young LGBTQ people are overrepresented in Atlanta’s homeless population.
Covenant House Georgia reports that a staggering 40 percent of homeless youth in Atlanta identified as LGBTQ. Black/African American people are also disproportionately experiencing homelessness, making up 48 percent of Atlanta’s resident population and 83 percent of its unhoused population.
The Trevor Project found that nearly 4,600 young LGBTQ people experienced homelessness or housing instability after being kicked out of their homes.
Transgender and nonbinary youth respondents were affected at disproportionately higher rates compared to their cisgender LGBTQ peers.
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