>> The National School Boards Association says that 1,384,000 public school students are homeless.
Holy fucking crap.
(Sorry I don't normally react like that, and even given homeless might not be "living on street", that is a horrific statistic)
Holy fucking crap.
(Sorry I don't normally react like that, and even given homeless might not be "living on street", that is a horrific statistic)
That said the definition of "homeless" in this count is extremely broad.
For example if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless. Even if someone stays temporarily in a hotel or motel, for example because of a fire or flood, will be counted as homeless. Even wider scope, a child who "qualified moved" within the last 36 months is considered migratory i.e. homeless.
https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento-definition/ )
(I understand pointing out incomplete [is there a better word?] facts is unpopular.)
Your public contempt is reciprocated by the people you do not respect.
Why does it make sense to count these people as homeless?
And even if you're renting... Why count someone who rents a trailer as homeless but not someone who rents an apartment?
It's a social class thing. It's not about having a reliable, warm, dry, safe place to sleep. It's about whether a middle class university graduate's friends would have considered them to have failed at life. Living in a coffin sized apartment with cockroaches everywhere in New York is something they could see themselves doing at some point in their life for career goals or because of bad luck. A trailer is not the kind of place a university graduate lives in.
Many cities ban you putting an RV on your own plot of land, regardless of the purpose. They often ban trailer parks, severely restrict them, etc to the detriment of many economically vulnerable people. There's often a component of racism too as some trailer parks home lots of immigrants or hispanic folks, marking them doubly undesirables.
This is what the definition of migratory child is.
(3) MIGRATORY CHILD.—The term ‘‘migratory child’’ means a child or youth who made a qualifying move in the preceding 36 months— (A) as a migratory agricultural worker or a migratory fisher; or (B) with, or to join, a parent or spouse who is a migratory agricultural worker or a migratory fisher.
It's not just that they moved (which is what I read from your comment) but they are a child who's parents are migratory workers and moved within 36 months.
>For example if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless.
This seems to check out. It's odd in the rest of the definition.
>(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals;*
It isn't true that children whose permanent residence is a trailer park are counted as homeless.
To me it reads the following aren't adequate accommodations if they are by themselves (i.e. no other housing): motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds.
I personally don't think a trailer in a trailer park with an address should be categorized as homeless, I'm just trying to interpret the law as a layperson. Maybe trailer parks were different back in 1965 (i.e. no address).
For example, it's an incomplete fact to say that "if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless", but thankfully you provided the link to the complete fact!
From your source, a little more completeness for your fact:
"living in ...trailer parks... due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations"
Thankfully, it is not true that everyone whose permanent residence is a trailer park is counted as homeless.
Wouldn't this be most people living in trailer parks?
This does not refer to people who's only economic choice generally is trailer parks.
Start at the top of the definition -- the statute concerns “individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence”.
Key word is fixed.
Then you have to be familiar with the difference between a trailer -- as in RV, or motor home -- that is not fixed, and one that is fixed to a foundation (sometimes called a manufactured home, or a single/double wide.)
Living out of an RV is homeless, living in a trailer on a pad is not.
It would be a horrific statistic, if it were even remotely close to being accurate.
The US had 580,000 total homeless in 2020. [1] That's up from the recent lows before the pandemic when it was ~50,000 lower (and it's dramatically lower than prior to the start of the federal Housing First program).
If the NSBA is claiming 1.4 million, they're knowingly lying and it's despicable.
The US national homelessness rate is comparable to France and Canada.
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
There’s homeless as in “in a shelter or on the street” and there’s homeless as in “lives temporarily with friends or family”… lots of ways to slice it