![]() Pearce founded HoMie with his friends Marcus Crook and Rob Gillies in 2015 as a social enterprise to support young people experiencing homelessness. How retailers can help end youth homelessness ![]() While the exact impact of the pandemic on the homeless population won’t be known until the next census is made public later this year, “there’s no denying that we were anticipating, unfortunately, an increase,” Pearce said. The other leading contributing factor to youth homelessness is the lack of affordable housing,” he said. ![]() “The majority of young people who experience homelessness are fleeing an unsafe family situation. Pearce attributes this to the well-documented rise of family violence during Covid, the number one driver of homelessness among women, and one of the leading drivers among young people. “We know that the number of people who are at risk of homelessness has increased exponentially, and a lot of people are in that situation who I’m sure never thought they would be,” he said. Pearce hopes the campaign will draw attention to the problem of youth homelessness, even as Covid and the resulting financial instability have worsened it. ![]() “That’s a really alarming statistic that not enough people have an awareness or visibility of,” HoMie CEO Nick Pearce told Inside Retail.
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