New York City faces a persistent conundrum: How can the city help homeless families out of shelters and into secure, stable housing—and prevent their return to the shelter system?…
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As of October 14, 2014 there were almost 12,000 families, including over 24,000 children, living in a family shelter in New York City every night.…
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The recent data released by the U.S. Department of Education on the increase in the number of homeless students in the United States are sad, but not surprising. Family homelessness has been climbing steadily for decades. …
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1.3 million school children are homeless. Why?…
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83% of cities surveyed reported that requests for emergency food assistance increased over the past year.…
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New York City has many tales to tell. One is familiar—Mayor de Blasio’s “Tale of Two Cities”—but the other is not: the Tale of Two Students, the housed and the homeless.…
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Homeless students are 8 to 9 times more likely to repeat grades.…
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There are 1.1 million homeless students in U.S. public schools. This does not include infants and toddlers.…
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Education is key to breaking the cycle of poverty and moving up the economic ladder, but 49% of all sheltered parents don’t have a high school diploma compared to 20% of all New Yorkers.…
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