Number of Homeless Students by Grade…
Number of Homeless Students by Grade
Audiences: General Public
Homeless Students in New York City Public Schools
One out of every eight students attending school in SY 2014–15 had been homeless at some point since SY 2010–11—over 127,000 students.…
The Daily News (WA): Shelters debate merits of Housing First approach
He said he supports the three-tiered approach to homelessness endorsed by Ralph DaCosta Nunez, president and CEO of Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness in New York.…
Summer 2016, Vol. 7.2
This issue takes a close look at both services and policies to understand where they do, can, or might have an impact on family homelessness.…
ThinkProgress: No Home, No Papers, No Help—The Plight Of Undocumented Immigrants On The Street
Homeless Hispanics are also more likely to spend the night in atypical unsheltered locations like abandoned buildings, according to the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, making them more likely to be overlooked.…
Huffington Post: A ‘Housing First’ Solution Could Actually Stimulate Homelessness
Recent weeks have brought devastating news for many of the shelters coping with a surge of homelessness in cities across the country: The federal funding they have relied on to house, feed, and care for some of the very neediest Americans is going away.…
Huffington Post: Why Rapid Rehousing May Be Increasing Family Homelessness
Tents cities are proliferating in Seattle and Los Angeles. Shelters are overflowing in Madison, Wisconsin, and Asheville, North Carolina. The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has declared a housing “state of emergency.” A coalition of 10 west coast mayors is pleading for money from Washington to address what they call a “housing and homelessness crisis.” Nowhere is the situation worse than in New York City, where the shelter population this winter has surged above 60,000.…
Huffington Post: Why New York City’s Homeless Family Policies Keep Failing
Your eyes do not deceive you, the headlines do not exaggerate: homelessness is worse than ever in New York City.…
Spring 2016, Vol. 7.1
Our 2016 conference brought together over 600 service providers, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from across the country and around the world to discuss best practices and share insights on how to address the issue of family homelessness with tools that stem far beyond simply housing.…
Home at Last: Stories for Children about Homelessness
Based on the children’s books by Ralph da Costa Nunez, Home at Last: Stories for Children about Homelessness is a collection of animated videos on family homelessness and poverty for grades K-5, together on one DVD.…
Huffington Post: The Nation’s Pressure Gauge Is Rising on Family Homelessness
There appears to be no end to the mounting pressures on America’s poorest families in the areas of income, housing, and employment.…
Homelessness and Young Children
In New York City 1 in 5 people in a homeless shelter is a child age 5 or younger.…