Posted on 12/03/2020 12:10:00 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The city’s homeless student population dipped slightly last year — but advocates warn that the numbers may be skewed due to the coronavirus and could soon skyrocket.
According to Advocates for Children of New York, 111,000 children were identified as homeless during the 2019-2020 academic year — a dip of 2.2 percent from the prior term.
Of those, about 32,700 lived in homeless shelters while roughly 73,000 were “doubled-up” in temporary housing situations with friends or family, according to ACNY.
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DaCommieo’s fault.
It could?
Maybe.
They seem to be talking as if COVID hasn’t been with us for the last ten months.
I don’t see the cause and effect.
I think the governor’s overreaction to the virus has damaged the economy.
I think the damaged economy has increased homelessness.
I think it is wrong to say kids are homeless because of the virus.
What is the homeless COVID death rate???
Depends on the precinct. It could be 120%.
What’s their major?
I find the expression "homeless student" jarring.
If you are a student, and homeless, you should quit school, find a job, make money, and rent an apartment.
The expression "child poverty" is likewise jarring jarring. As long as they aren't sleeping in the gutter, children don't really care about wealth (or, at least, they shouldn't).
These expressions are inventions of the journaille, intended to promote muddled thinking on the part of their readership.
Regards,
Democraps. Building Crap Better.
Huh? Should be plenty of vacant space in nyc.
I find the expression “homeless student” jarring.
If you are a student, and homeless, you should quit school, find a job, make money, and rent an apartment.
I suspect you are thinking these are minors living on their own. Most homeless students are homeless because their family is not homeless, not because they are living on their own on the streets.
Completely predictable outcome that when you shut down businesses, businesses fail. When businesses fail, families suffer economic hardship. When families suffer economic hardship, many get pushed off the edge into poverty.
What’s not being stated here is how the impact of these economic hits will echo through a generation or more. The coronavirus itself will ultimately kill probably upwards of 400,000 Americans before we get a safe and effective vaccine into enough peoples’ hands to stop it. The RESPONSE is killing and will continue to kill people long, long after this is all over as poverty is the greatest killer of all time. I think 50 years from now, studies will look back and demonstrate that the failed response from state and local governments directly or indirectly caused the deaths of easily 10 times as many people as COVID-19.
yup...
Steven Scharf: I suspect you are thinking these are minors living on their own. Most homeless students are homeless because their family is not homeless, not because they are living on their own on the streets.
I will "cop" to perhaps falsely assuming that the article is referring to university and college students (here in Germany, a "Student" is automatically a university or college student, whereas a schoolchild attending primary or secondary school is a mere "pupil," and is not given the appellation "student").
The reference to "minors" also doesn't help - I was 17 when a freshman in college.
If that is the case - i.e., if the article is actually about, e.g., elementary school children - then it has done its readers a great disservice by not making that clearer.
But if it's about college students, then my initial recommendation still holds: Doesn't matter if your parents are homeless - Declare yourself independent, get a job, etc.
Regards,
Sure am glad we here in Florida have DeSantis as gov. and not the mobster Cuomo.
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