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