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Many young adults wait months — or even longer — for housing, adding more trauma to an already difficult existence. Why are delays so pervasive, and what can fix the problem?

Editor’s Note This is Part One of a two-part series that came out of the “Our Kids” reporting project. Our Kids is a project of the reporting collaborative, which examines the challenges and opportunities facing Philadelphia’s foster care system. So, why Philadelphia? While we generally report mostly only on issues in Los Angeles and around California, this two part series — which originally ran in NEXT CITY — skillfully points beyond itself to the destructive and disproportion...