This isn’t a runaway — it’s a foster placement ending. Rising living costs are shrinking the number of foster homes, leaving some kids with nowhere to go.

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The Shortage of Foster Homes

Name: No Place Left
Uploaded: 2025-12-17T20:07:55.896Z
Description: This isn’t a runaway — it’s a foster placement ending. Rising living costs are shrinking the number of foster homes, leaving some kids with nowhere to go.

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Published: Dec 17, 2025, 3:07 PM EST
Updated: Dec 16, 2025, 11:20 AM EST
Filed from: United States
Views: 1.7K

This isn’t a runaway — it’s a foster placement ending. Rising living costs are shrinking the number of foster homes, leaving some kids with nowhere to go.

Transcript

That backpack isn't packed for a trip.

It's everything he owns.

He's not a runaway.

He's a foster kid, and his placement just ended.

isn't a home for him yet.

Foster homes are disappearing due to rising costs.

So for some kids, there is no home to go back to.