Literature Review
Student Homelessness and Basic Needs Insecurity
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Many students experience food and housing insecurity. Learn how these insecurities affect students. Get tips for overcoming common barriers.
Identifying and Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness from Pre-School to Post-Secondary Ages
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
This webpage includes information about ED programs that serve homeless children and youth as well as programs in other Federal agencies that serve these young people. Furthermore, ED has been involved in many inter-agency initiatives through the implementation of Opening Doors since 2010.
Low funding for universities puts students at risk for cycles of poverty, especially in the wake of COVID-19
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Postsecondary education has consistently been linked to the promise of a better life. Graduating from postsecondary study has been identified as the single most important factor affecting intergenerational mobility. Yet, several factors at play today show how this function of postsecondary education is in crisis in Canada.
No one should have to become homeless to earn a university degree
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
However, most universities do not have enough spaces available to house their students. In 2019, there was a shortage of over 14,300 student housing beds across Metro Vancouver. The University of British Columbia was responsible for a large amount of this shortage, with more than 6,000 students on its housing wait-list in 2019.
Housing Insecurity & College: A Resource for Students Experiencing Homelessness
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Discover the kind of support that exists for college students facing homelessness and get the information you need to start your journey towards higher education.
Education for Young People Experiencing Homelessness and Housing Precarity
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
20% of Canada’s homeless population is made up of young people between13-24 years of age, with at least 35,000-40,000 youth experiencing homelessness in any given year. The inability to effectively address youth homelessness represents Canada’s most urgent youth equity issue. Research is unambiguous: homelessness rapidly deteriorates young people’s health, and homeless youth experience strikingly higher mortality rates than housed youth.
Post-Secondary Student Homelessness (PSSH) in Canada: Informing Prevention Through Qualitative Analysis
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
This project aims to explore what housing supports look like from the perspective of youth with lived experience of homelessness in post-secondary environments, using a mixed method qualitative design. The project also seeks to determine the role administrators may play in preventing PSSH.
National survey to shed light on postsecondary student homelessness
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
After years of collecting anecdotal data, UNB professor Eric Weissman is leading a study to bring the issue of student homelessness out of the shadows.
Education and Homelessness: What Part Does Education Play?
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Studies find that 63% to 90% of youth experiencing homelessness did not complete high school despite being the age to have done so. There is a direct link between education and homelessness, youth homelessness in particular.
Supporting Students Who Are Experiencing Homelessness
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Although this act has been in place since 1987, the act and its implications for schools are not as widely known as they should be among educators and administrators. The McKinney-Vento Act, including revisions made during its reauthorization in Title IX, Part A, of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015),2 defines youth experiencing homelessness in a far more expansive way than traditional conceptualizations.