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Luke Shaefer  \nUniversity of Michigan  \nConditionally accepted at Social Service Review  \nThis paper is available online at the Poverty Solutions Research Publications index at:  \n[poverty.umich.edu/publications/working_papers](poverty.umich.edu/publications/working_papers)  \nAny opinions, findings, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect  \nthe view of Poverty Solutions or any sponsoring agency.  \nAbstract  \nDuring the 2015–2016 school year, 1.3 million students nationwide experienced homelessness. Yet hardships like homelessness represent dynamic rather than static states, and so annual figures understate the cumulative risk that students face over time. Moreover, despite recent efforts to understand eviction and foreclosure as exploitative and racialized processes, there have been few efforts to connect homelessness to these and other structural conditions. Using administrative data on the population of public school students in Michigan, we found that close to one in ten students experienced homelessness while in school. Moreover, black students were over three times more likely to experience literal homelessness than white students. County-year fixed effects models indicate that rental costs, forced housing moves, and the opioid epidemic were associated with greater student homelessness. These findings have implications for our understanding of racial inequalities and the ways in which disadvantage and inequality are products of exploitative relationships.  \nDisclaimer  \nThis research result used data structured and maintained by the Michigan Consortium for Educational Research (MCER) . MCER data is modified for analysis purposes using rules governed by MCER and are not identical to those data collected and maintained by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and/or Michigan’s Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) . Results, information and opinions solely represent the analysis, information and opinions of the author(s) and are not endorsed by, or reflect the views or positions of, grantors, MDE and CEPI or any employee thereof.  \nNo Place Called Home: Student Homelessness Prevalence and Structural Correlates  \nThe United States Department of Education estimates that 1.3 million public school students nationally were homeless during the 2015–2016 school year (National Center for Education Statistics 2017) . A two-fold increase in the number of homeless students over the past decade has caused alarm among educators and policymakers, as homelessness is thought to be a form of extreme hardship that contributes to other social inequalities (Buckner 2008, Lee, Tyler, and Wright 2010, Miller 2011, Grant et al. 2013) . Scholarly interest in homelessness also reflects a turn from income-based measures of hardship to more direct measures of well-being that paint a richer picture of serious disadvantage and expose the relational aspects of poverty (Desmond and Western 2018, Shaefer et al. 2019) .  \nThree decades after social scientists first brought attention to child and family homelessness, knowledge about the prevalence and causes of homelessness remains elusive as this vulnerable population is particularly difficult to identify using traditional survey methods (Shlay and Rossi 1992, Lee, Tyler, and Wright 2010) . Much of what we know about the lifetime prevalence of homelessness during childhood comes from retrospective surveys of older adults who came of age during more favorable economic conditions than those that prevail today in the midst of rising economic inequality. Meanwhile, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) measures cross-sectional homelessness annually, but because homelessness is a dynamic state","cbCairrMs7r72DBB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairrMs7r72DBB","pdf",949414,48,"English","# Abstract\n## Study data and approach\n## Key findings and racial stratification\n## Implications for inequality and disadvantage","[{\"question\":\"How prevalent is student homelessness during the 2015–2016 school year?\",\"answer\":\"The paper reports that close to one in ten students experienced homelessness while in school during 2015–2016.\"},{\"question\":\"How does homelessness risk differ by race in the study?\",\"answer\":\"Black students are over three times more likely than white students to experience literal homelessness, and the broadly defined risk is two times greater for Black and Hispanic students than for white students.\"},{\"question\":\"Which structural factors are associated with greater student homelessness in the models?\",\"answer\":\"County-year fixed effects models associate higher student homelessness with rental costs, forced housing moves, and the opioid epidemic.\"}]","No Place Called Home - Student Homelessness Prevalence and Structural Correlates | PDF",1792058265,121]