More than 21,000 Queens students experienced homelessness at some point during the most recent school year, even as the coronavirus pandemic forced kids to complete their classwork remotely, according to an annual report published Tuesday by the organization Advocates for Children of New York.
Overall, more than 111,000 students — roughly 85 percent of whom were Black or Latino — experienced homelessness across New York City during the 2019-2020 school year. That’s roughly one in 10 students citywide and the fifth consecutive year that more than 100,000 New York City schoolchildren experienced homelessness, the organization said.
The persistent crisis of child homelessness coincides with the dual public health and economic impacts of COVID-19, which have put even more families at risk of eviction and displacement, said AFC Executive Director Kim Sweet
“If these children comprised their own city, it would be larger than Albany, and their numbers may skyrocket even further after the state eviction moratorium is lifted,” Sweet said. “The city must act now to put more support in place for students who are homeless.”
AFC analyzed state Department of Education enrollment data to identify the number of public and charter school students who experienced homelessness. There were 21,266 such students in Queens’ seven school districts last school year, the data reveals.
Homelessness doesn’t mean that a student slept in a car or shelter — though nearly 4,000 did in Queens, AFC found. Advocates and researchers consider a family to be experiencing homelessness if they live “doubled up,” meaning they do not have a permanent address where their names appear on a lease or contract and they can be evicted at any time with no rights to the location.
About 77 percent of the students who experienced homelessness in Queens were living “doubled up.”
This is why de Blasio is adamant about in person learning. Even while the COVID-19 case levels is currently 2% higher than the initial threshold for school closings.
10 comments:
Good thing the mayor’s wife was given close to 2 billion dollars to handle this. NYC voters = idiots, NYC Press = lazy cowards for never pressing our worthless local pols.
That’s a very broad definition of homeless.
The marxists said they were for the working class, but then they made it so the working class had to work, but didn't get paid for it and could not own anything. They turned them into slave labor all while telling them the workers actually owned where they worked. Sure you can say it belongs to you, but if the profit from it doesn't go to you, well you don't own a damn thing.
The dems are doing the same shit the commies did in Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, China, etc. They are using this easily survivable virus to justify doing it to us.
Progs always say they want to help people but as always when they have power then the people be damned so long as they get their votes and their money from them. If a disgrace like this is what Progressivism is all about then it should NEVER be allowed to exist anywhere except in the trashcan of history.
Anonymous said...
Good thing the mayor’s wife was given close to 2 billion dollars to handle this. NYC voters = idiots, NYC Press = lazy cowards for never pressing our worthless local pols.
Friday, December 04, 2020
Compassionate liberalism at its best. These hypocrites always scream they're "for the people" when the truth is they're really for the people's money. Then they have the gall to screech how awful capitalism is when in fact these people are at least as bad as any robber baron ever was and are usually far worse.
The dems are doing the same shit the commies did in Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, China,
Russia replaced with the Soviet Union and we are good.
All led by crime families. Sounds familiar? Just askin'
NYC is an expensive place to live. Many people and families will never make it here. My homelessness solution is a combination of bus tickets and a move-out stipend, with a caveat that the person who takes the stipend cannot move back to NYC for 3 years. We'd be doing people a favor. If they want to stay in NY, there's Utica, Buffalo, Rochester-- cheaper places to live, with jobs available (in non-COVID times).
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they are coming for all the crooks!
Watch out. Traitors will be tried!
NYC is an expensive place to live.
Yes. Socialism and communism works with extortion and other peoples money. You got it.
There are cultures where the families live doubled up, tripled up or more on purpose. Those huge brick houses with 5 bedrooms, bathrooms and a large basement have plenty of families living in them with only one owning the house. There are several houses like this on my block. The families are related. Why would they be counted as homeless just because they don’t have a lease or the electric bill is in only one name. Does this give those families more money and benefits? I hope before they declare a family homeless for doubling up without a lease they at least visit the home. Anyone living in the mini mansions is not homeless. They are living better than most of us and running a scam.
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