Schrage of the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs and Integration, Denmark has 15,000 homeless people, 3,000 of whom live on the streets. The Mental Health & Homelessness in Iowa study conducted in 2005 concluded that over 21,000 Iowans were homeless at some point in 2005 (Graham, 2010). Denmark's homeless population is small compared to the entire United States. Walking the streets of many metropolitan areas in the United States, a person is often faced with an often ignored problem: homeless youth, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless, 5% to 7% of American youth become homeless in in any given year, 75 The percentage of homeless or runaway youth have dropped out or will drop out of school, and between 20% and 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBT