§11245 Periodic Estimate of Incidence and Prevalence of Youth Homelessness

Summary

The Secretary must, in consultation with the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, prepare and send a report no later than 2 years after October 8, 2008, and every 5 years after that to the House Education and Labor Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, and must make the report available to the public. The report must use the best available quantitative and qualitative social science methods to estimate how many runaway and homeless young people there are and how often it happens, and must describe their key characteristics. The young people covered are those at least 13 years old but under 26 years old. The report must include results from a survey and direct interviews with a representative sample of those youth to learn about their socioeconomic traits and barriers to safe, affordable housing; to getting health insurance and health care; and to obtaining incomes, public benefits, support services, and connections to caring adults. The Secretary may add other useful information after consulting States, local governments, and national homelessness organizations. If the Secretary hires a non‑Federal organization or person to do the work, that contractor must be a nongovernmental group or individual the Secretary finds has the right expertise in quantitative and qualitative social science research.