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HOMELESS RESOURCES

The Lansing School District is committed to ensure all children have access to their education on a daily basis. The term “homeless children and youth” are defined as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

The term “homeless children and youth”—

means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and

adequate nighttime residence...; and
includes —
1. children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals;
2. children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings...
3. children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
4. migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (1) through (3).