Post-secondary Student Homelessness/Housing Research Network

Posted by Tristan Remple on July 8, 2024

To better understand the needs of students experiencing homelessness and the ways California’s colleges can more effectively support them, the California Homeless Youth Project (CHYP) and the ACLU Foundations of California (ACLU) surveyed California’s college homeless liaisons. Staff from as many as 61% of California’s community colleges responded to the survey. This report details the responses of people working most closely with this student community and offers recommendations to improve practice.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

Research shows that many students in Massachusetts experience hunger and/or homelessness, as well as other types of basic needs insecurity that can serve as barriers to degree completion. In 2019, the DHE developed partnerships with other state agencies, campuses, and community-based organizations to create innovative solutions to student housing insecurity. In December 2020, Commissioner Santiago charged members of a Basic Needs Security Advisory Committee to make policy recommendations on how to address growing economic insecurity among students.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

61 designated communities across Canada to view community plans, report cards, homeless counts and other reports that monitor homelessness in the region.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

The Center for Equitable Higher Education (CEHE) is a trusted source of actionable research and catalyst of higher education systems that meet student basic needs and produce equitable outcomes.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

The National League of Cities has provided direct support to help cities work in partnership with their postsecondary institutions and community partners to remove barriers to basic needs such as food, housing, childcare, mental health services, transportation, or digital access for postsecondary students. NLC is working with local leaders to gain knowledge about their residents’ postsecondary completion challenges, identify specific basic needs to tackle and connect cities with their peers to share and refine approaches that hold promise in overcoming barriers to college completion.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

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Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

Connecting the Dots: How Colleges Can Collaborate with Homelessness Response Systems to Address Student Needs

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

ECMC Foundation believes every postsecondary student should have the resources they need throughout their academic journey to focus, succeed and complete their degree. The postsecondary ecosystem must play an active role in ensuring this happens. With this initiative, we envision a postsecondary experience that allows students to reach their fullest potential, unencumbered by basic needs insecurity. To realize this ambitious-but-possible goal, ECMC Foundation addresses basic needs insecurity in postsecondary education by supporting programs and solutions that align with the following strategies.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

The Borgen Project believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. We’re the innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

US-based nationwide nonprofit dedicated to supporting post-seconadary students' basic needs. Provides resources and information to students, emergency funds to students, and information to providers and donors in collaboration with research and funding partners.