In analyzing the federal government’s lengthy report, the New York-based ‘Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness’ concludes ‘definitive answers are nowhere to be found,’ raising serious questions about the report’s methodology and conclusions.…
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Crosscut: Mayor’s Homeless Advisors Are Misguided
The Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness published a statement on a HUD Family Options Study, which followed hundreds of homeless families in 12 cities across the country for three years.…
New York Daily News: Homeless Student Enrollment in NYC Schools Jumps 70% From Pre-recession Total
A whopping 86,694 homeless students are enrolled in city schools — a number that has steadily grown over the past few years, the Daily News has learned.…
TimesLedger: Student Homelessness In Queens Varies By District
School districts in Queens varied in terms of the numbers of students who experienced homelessness in the 2014-15 school year, according to a new report released by a nonprofit.…
New York Times: Under New Policy for Homeless Families, Children Can Miss Less School
Nearly 40 percent of homeless students missed at least a month of school during the 2014-15 school year, according to the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness.…
BK Reader: At Town Hall, Residents Rail—City Using Bed-Stuy as ‘Dumping Ground’ for Homeless Shelters
According to recent findings by the Manhattan-based Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness (ICPH), Bed-Stuy and its neighboring community Brownsville lead the borough in the percentages of homeless families.…
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Bed-Stuy, Brownsville school districts have the highest percentage of homeless students
A new study shows that two Central Brooklyn school districts rank first and second in the borough on the most disheartening of lists: Percentages of homeless students.…
Kings County Politics: Bed-Stuy, Brownsville School Districts Lead Borough With Homeless Students
Bedford-Stuyvesant’s District 16 and Brownsville’s District 23 were the top two school districts in Brooklyn in the school year 2014-15 with homeless students.…
El Diario: Menores que viven en refugios de NYC muestran bajo desempeño escolar
En la Ciudad de Nueva York hay al menos 82,000 estudiantes que viven en refugios, en su mayoría latinos, que enfrentan mayores problemas académicos en las escuelas en comparación con el resto de los niños.…
POLITICO New York: City’s homeless students face mounting academic obstacles, report shows
New York City’s roughly 82,000 homeless students face more academic obstacles than their peers in almost every way, according to a study released Thursday by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness.…
Chalkbeat: Nine graphs that show how hard it is to be a homeless student in New York City
About 127,000 New York City public school students—or one in eight—have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined.…
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.…