Homeless Services
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- Homelessness Defined
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Homeless students are defined as individuals lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, which may include the following conditions:
- Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason.
- Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations.
- Living in an emergency, transitional, or domestic violence shelters.
- Abandoned in hospitals.
- Using public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings, as a primary nighttime residence.
- Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations, or similar settings.
- Living as migratory children in conditions described in previous examples.
- Living as run-away children, abandoned, or forced out of homes by parents/guardians or caretakers, or separated from parents/guardians for any other reason.
- Living as school-age parents/guardians in houses for school-age parents/guardians if they have no other living accommodations.