Organisers are expecting about 7,500 people to attend Saturday's festivities.
, who are working to end homelessness.I was surprised when he told me around 6,300 young people got support for homelessness in Wales last year.
He also said for people who are homeless on their 21st birthday, there is a 73% chance they will be homeless again."People may assume homelessness is an older man and a rough sleeper but homelessness can affect anyone of any age," said Shaun."A lot of people sofa surf, or wouldn't even realise they are homeless technically.
"It counts as homeless if you don't have anywhere safe to say."He said while numbers have stayed consistent over the last few years, young people need more "intense" support centred on them for the long term.
"You may only be homeless for a few months but the impact can follow you for the rest of your life," he told me.
He said we need to better understand homelessness so we can spot people at risk.And it was seemingly caught off-guard by the disruptive impact the Republican-backed programme of relocating migrants to Democratic-run northern cities would have on government services far from the border.
Shortages in Covid tests and infant formula, a dramatic increase in the price of eggs, the end of Roe v Wade abortion protections, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza – for every seemingly unanticipated fire the Biden administration addressed, two new ones would emerge.The challenges were, in fact, daunting – ones that felled incumbent leaders in democracies around the world.
But for Biden and the Democrats, hoping to prove that they were a competent and effective counterpoint not just to Trump but to global authoritarian regimes, the stakes were high.Amid all of this, responses from the administration were sometimes glaringly off-key. When asked during a television interview about raising oil production in America to reduce gas prices, in November 2021, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm responded with a laugh.