The Costs of Caring: Navigating Material Challenges When Adults Informally Host Youth Facing Homelessness

Emerging work suggests that in some intergenerational informal hosting arrangements, youth and their adult hosts can form meaningful and supportive relationships. However, hosts also navigate material challenges that could threaten the stability of these arrangements. This study describes how increased household costs and lease and benefits restrictions can impact stability, and the strategies hosts and youth mobilized to address them. 

Publication Date: 
2022
Pages: 
1-18
Journal Name: 
Youth & Society