More families and unaccompanied youth are experiencing homelessness in Oklahoma City now than at any other point in the past two decades, according to newly released figures.
Though the city’s overall homelessness saw a small decline this year, unaccompanied youth and family homelessness grew by 11% and 5% respectively and are both the highest they’ve been since at least 2005, based on available federal data.
Rising costs, limited affordable housing and ongoing economic pressures are pushing families to a crisis point, said Jamie Caves during the State of Homelessness Address earlier this month. Caves is the strategy implementation manager for the Oklahoma City partnership organization Key to Home, which facilitates the Point-in-Time Count…