About one in every eight New York City public school students — nearly 146,000 children — experienced homelessness during the 2023-24 school year, data released late last year from the nonprofit Advocates for Children of New York has revealed. That figure, a 23% jump from the year before, marks the ninth consecutive year that more than 100,000 students were identified as homeless. They included children living in hotels, motels and shelters, or temporarily sharing housing belonging to others.
