Homeless Program

McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act

DEFINITION OF HOMELESS 

A family or student that lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence and is forced to live in any of the following situations:

• Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason (example: evicted from home, etc.).
• In a motel, hotel, campground or similar setting due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations.
• In an emergency or transitional shelter.
• Have a primary nighttime residence that is not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for humans.
• In a car, park, public space, abandoned building, substandard housing, bus or train station, or a similar setting.
• Student is living alone without an adult or with an adult who is not the parent or legal guardian.