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Habitat For Humanity Lake County
New Trier High School
What will you build?
Homelessness in the United States
On any given night, approximately 750,000 men, women, and children are homeless in the US. * 56% are living in shelters and transitional housing, while 44% are unsheltered. * 59% are single adults and 41% are persons living in families. * 98,452 are homeless families * 23% are chronically homeless according to HUD’s definition. (Over the course of a year, between 2.5 and 3.5 million people will live either on the streets or in an emergency shelter.
(Homelessness in the United States of America. Prepared by the National Alliance to End Homelessness.)
Homelessness in Illinois
Based on the January 2011 National Alliance to End Homelessness State of Homelessness report, an estimated 14,055 people experience homelessness each night in Illinois.* 84% were living in shelters and transitional housing, while 16% were unsheltered. * 53% were single adults and 47% were persons living in families. * 16% were chronically homeless
Homelessness in Lake County
In Lake County Illinois 439 people met the definition of homeless. 218 were members of a family and 221 were individuals.
45.3% were female; 54.7% were male 30.3% were children under the age of 18 79.3% of those children were under the age of 12 Nearly 3% were over the age of 60 17.6% were veterans 20.8% had a disability that limited their ability to live alone 25.2% were victims of domestic violence
Background Information
Founded in 1989Build almost 150 homes in Lake CountyNew Trier has funded 11 homes since
2001New Trier has funded more homes than
any other school!!!!!
What Have You Really Done?
11 houses have served 11 families 11 families includes 39 people 39 people have spent a total of 45 years in
Habitat homes. You have provided 72,635 nights of shelter
to people living in Lake County.
930 Wadsworth-Smith Family
2205 Kemble-Parker Family
2125 Lewis-Morales Family
2115 Lewis-Herring Family
1383 Carter Court-Peterson-Perry Family
2527 Dugdale-Scott Family
1712 11th Street-Bryant Family
1657 11th Court-Lezine-Finley Family
1630 11th Court-Nix Family
1642 11th Court-Rivera-Garcia Family
626 Ash Street- Triplett Family