Bringing Families Home

Every child deserves a safe, warm home every night of the year.

This is not the reality for more than 30,000 kids in North Carolina. Families are forced to call a friend’s couch, a shelter, or even their family car home for the night. This is an uncomfortable reality for young children experiencing homelessness. Families with young children deserve an easier path to secure, stable housing options.

By the Numbers

Homelessness Is Closer Than Families Know

Half of all children under 6 in North Carolina live in households at risk of becoming homeless. As a result, homelessness is often closer than families know.

48% of children under 6 live in families under the 200% poverty level – the threshold that allows a family to meet basic needs for housing, food, and other necessities.
In North Carolina, approximately 250,000 families are in the risk zone – 709,254 young children under 6 live in 500,261 families.
1 in 5 families in North Carolina is at risk of becoming homeless every month. In addition, 214,000 (20%) of families with children aged ever-increasingly have little or no confidence in their ability to pay their next rent or mortgage payment.

1.3M

children under age 6 experience homelessness each year in the U.S.

50%

of children in homeless shelters are age 5 or younger.

1 in 4

eligible families receives federal housing assistance.

North Carolina’s young children need your help. We need your voice.

We need your fight to bring families home. This will not be an overnight success, but when voices come together, amazing things can happen.

North Carolina’s motto is Esse Quam Videri, or “To be rather than to seem.” We are creating a movement to demand our state be for our young children rather than seeming to be. We can make an impact on young children together.

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