NY Times - A record 154,000 public school students in New York City were homeless during the last school year, according to data released Monday, grim evidence that the city’s worsening housing crisis is wreaking havoc on its youngest and most vulnerable residents.
Almost all these children sleep in shelters or in overcrowded apartments shared by other families, where they are considered homeless under federal education law.
The population of homeless students in the nation’s largest school system has exceeded 100,000 for 10 consecutive years and has ballooned under recent mayoral administrations: About 87,000 students were identified as homeless when Bill de Blasio began his first term in 2014.
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