America’s inescapable crisis: Student homelessness 

The housing crisis that affects students across the United States requires a coordinated response among those serving young people and families. 

Twenty-year-old Cory dreams of being a small business owner, worries about climate change and rising sea levels, and has lots of opinions about school, but what I notice about him today are his tired eyes, the result of a 90-minute bus trip across Los Angeles at 6 a.m. to a drop-in center where he goes several times a week to receive food, clothing, and social services. At night, he’s on his own without family or loved ones, sometimes sleeping on the street, couch surfing, and moving from one location to another. When he talks about school, he describes an educational system in which he felt overlooked and uncared for: “I felt like I was passing through.”