This story about a forum of homeless community college students in Silicon Valley is insane.http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-homeless-students-ask-community-officials-to-stop-stigmatizing-them …
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“According to several recent surveys, one in five — or about 400,000 — California community college students has experienced homelessness within the last year. And thousands more are at risk of becoming homeless.”
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I find this stat puzzling... According to https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/ … there are 130,000 total homeless on any given day in the state. Is there be so much churn in that number that there can be 400k students in one year?
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Replying to @moskov @kimmaicutler
I'm curious about this too. The SF Homeless Census statistics imply a similar trend. Specifically the city is effective at getting people off the streets but has a stable/persistent homeless population
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Chronic is about 2-3K of the 8K. Most are not what people would stereotypically associate or visualize w/ homelessness. It's more like sleeping in cars in friends/relatives' garages, couches, etc.
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