THE US National Centre on Family Homelessness warned yesterday that the number of homeless children has surged in recent years to an all-time high — one child in 30.

A comprehensive state-by-state report blamed a high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impact of pervasive domestic violence.

Entitled America’s Youngest Outcasts, the centre’s report calculated that nearly 2.5 million US children were homeless at some point in 2013.