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Employees of the Miami-Dade Public Library System distribute COVID-19 home rapid test kits in Miami, Florida, the US on January 8, 2022. Photo: AFP Like many teenagers in foster care, Korah Loyd dreaded her 18th birthday – a milestone that leaves thousands of vulnerable young people facing homelessness and an uncertain future in the US each year.

"It was a collective joke among foster kids: When you turn 18, what street are you going to live on?" Loyd, who is now 28 and lives in Seattle, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "You’re literally giving yourself up to be homeless."

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