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This year, around 86,000 young people in the UK will be homeless. But what does that really mean?

Homelessness is more than just sleeping on the streets. While this can be the most dangerous, and most visible, form of homelessness, it is just the tip of the iceberg.

Homelessness means not having a place to call home – a place that is private, secure, decent and affordable and where you have a right to stay. Simply having a roof over your head is not enough, as Natalie's story shows.

If it is unsafe for you to stay where you are, if you cannot afford to live there or you are forced to constantly move, you can still be considered homeless.

For many young people this is a dangerous reality. Welfare reforms and a worsening housing crisis have increasingly taken away young people’s options. So many young people are trapped in a cycle of homelessness, moving from sofa to sofa, not knowing where they will sleep that night

And not having a stable home makes everything else more difficult: holding down a job, staying in school or education, even just keeping yourself clean and looking presentable.

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