Literature Review
To help homeless students, embed community services into campus life
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Stories like Carla’s remind us that it’s time to show up for our kids in real time — where they are — especially for our K-12 students experiencing homelessness.
Homeless in College: Students sleep in cars, on couches when they have nowhere else to go
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
"The conditions that create these problems do tend to be worse now than 10 to 15 years ago,’’ says Goldrick-Rab, who added that college students can't necessarily tap the safety nets available to younger children or adults who are not in school.
How to Support College Students Experiencing Homelessness during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
A recent survey by the Hope Center of more than 195,000 two-year and four-year college students found that about half experienced housing insecurity and about one in seven reported they either experienced homelessness or lacked a stable living situation.
In College and Homeless
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
At community colleges, many students are spending nights on friends’ couches or sleeping in cars. Advocates are pushing for solutions, including safer places to park overnight.
‘Labour is labour’: Why Hamilton students are fighting for a living wage
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
To help make life in the city more affordable, Bodo and other advocates say, the City of Hamilton should pay all employees — students included — the designated living wage for the city: $16.45 per hour. They say this is particularly important now, as pandemic job losses have disproportionately affected younger workers, women, and part-time workers.
Student focus groups weigh in on university housing
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Do housing options affect university student lived experiences, including grade point average (GPA) and graduation? This is a question StudentDwellTO, a research partnership between Toronto’s four universities, has set out to answer. The answer they got was – yes.
PSC warns of student housing insecurity
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Housing insecurity, an issue that affects more than half of CUNY students, has become a more pressing concern in the graduate and undergraduate community since the onset of the pandemic. According to a 2018 survey of nearly 22,000 CUNY students from 19 campuses, one in 10 students had already experienced homelessness before the pandemic.
The experience of homeless university students in London and how institutions can help
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
While successive government policies have made university education more accessible to groups that were previously excluded, those same groups are also most likely to experience homelessness. Patrick Mulrenan examines the impact of homelessness on students’ wellbeing and performance, and suggests how universities can intervene.
Homelessness in college students is an issue, finds recent Wayne State study
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
In the nation’s first study of homelessness in college students, Wayne State University researchers in Detroit have found that unstable housing has a negative impact on students with respect to health, stressful events and other areas of their lives.
Poverty and the precarity generation
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Much of the #GenYAsksY discussion focused on the reality facing young people in the modern workforce, which often includes employers engaging in contract flipping, “perma-temp” lifestyles, and the anxiety of entering an unstable economy with an average of $27,000 in student debt. It is clear that the problem is not just about the capacity of young people to get and retain long-term jobs with a living wage.