Students

Issues and events regarding the particular barriers to affordable housing faced by students

Education Technology Trips Up Students Worldwide During COVID

A UNESCO publication, introduced in UNESCO's own words: "A new book about experiences with educational technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications for the future of learning... "The COVID-19 pandemic...

Homeless School Children: Uncountable Numbers, Inadequate Education

It may seem strange to case the world for bad news, rather than good news, in order to tackle social problems. Education is one field where observing the trials...

Students In Vocational Careers That Help Homeless People

Not everyone imagines lifelong happiness with a string of fancy degrees (as well as a massive debt). Career? Maybe some kind of high powered financier, spiriting wealth out of...

From Homelessness To Higher Learning: A Difficult Path Which Needs Caring Support

Some folks might want to help people who are homeless, but would like do more than sustain a seemingly never-ending parade of marginal existence and misery. For those keen to...

Part Of The Solution Or The Problem? BC Children’s Ministry Calls Missing Children “A Nuisance”

According to a new report by Jennifer Charlesworth, B.C.’s representative for children and youth, the poor handling of children who go missing in British Columbia can be partly blamed...

Helping Students Stay Housed And Stay In School

Hard on the heels of a post about Governor Newsome's end homelessness campaign in CaliforniaTry: Funding Houses For All Homeless. An Enormous Expense Or An Amazing Money-Maker?, here is...

Parents Keeping Homelessness A Secret? Who Might Speak Up For The Kids?

Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more common for children to wind up — and grow up — in emergency shelters, or in other precarious living circumstances. Off the...

America #1 Homelessness Crisis: California. Would You Guess #2: Vermont?

California has the largest number of homeless people per capita in the U.S. It is largely an urban problem, highly visible, much talked about nationally and beyond. Vermont, the state...

Unaffordable Housing And The Dumbing Down Of America

Five years ago, Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia discovered that it was running a housing service in their library that they were entirely unaware ofRead more...

What Does The Human Right To Adequate Housing Say About Caprice?

Look skyward to find Capricorn, the heavenly goat, among the stars. Look to Youtube and search for 'baby goat.' After a little browsing you'll have some idea of capricious...

Time To Get Out Your Hip Waders And Plunge Into Sewer Socialism?

'Me Too, Me Too!' Canada has a tendency to behave like the annoying little kid on the block who hero-worships the Big Kid who lives one block south. For...

‘True’ YIMBY? Yes In My Back Yard? Who Knew? Atlanta Did, And Still Does

Introducing Atlanta's Mad Housers, a name birthed from a really bad joke . . . that stuck. It all began with architectural students from Georgia Tech who designed some...

Wait A Sec! Are Homeless Shelters Meant To Be Student Residences?

A Toronto homelessness story carries us firmly into the land of unexpected results, by way of understanding the evolving nature of homelessness. One description of homelessness is most convenient for...

School Homeless Shelter Model Gives Families A Safety Net

One foot is planted in the alien distraction of a homeless shelter, the other in a nearby school, which is most likely a bus ride away. How are homeless...

Canada: How Many Angels Can Study On The Head Of A Pin?

Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that all university students are angelic and deserving of rescue from a current fate: unaffordable student housing. So you're delighted you've been...

Unacceptable: Numbers of Children Growing Up Homeless Increases Worldwide

Recently, we referred to an article from Cincinnati that discussed the above average numbers of students in the Cincinnati Public School system who are homeless. There the concern focussed...

Equality of Opportunity? Not For Students From Homeless Families

Consider a reasonably common school class size — say thirty students. Can we assume equality of opportunity to all those who are served by the same set of teachers...

Too Young To Fret? Social Housing Provides Outlet For Youthful Worrying

Why should children and youth worry about major world conundrums such as ongoing deadly pandemics, or human-triggered climate change that promises to soon broil more and more life on earth?...

Education Essential, So U.S. Searches Vainly For 400K+ Homeless SchoolKids

How does a country like the United States "lose" some 420,000 children who should be not only enrolled in schools, but receiving supports to ensure they actually receive that...

Pandemic Virtual Student Schooling Disrupts Homeless Shelters

This post reports on an unexpected consequence of students forced to work from home — a youth homeless shelter forced to curtail activities due to lack of staff. A little...

Strengthening Community With A Taste Of Fulfilling Employment

This is part of a series about community. Growing and sustaining a community brings benefits to the participants, provides a means of personal development and builds hope and resilience....

Preventing Future Homelessness: A Door Opens For Youth To Attend School

Family Promise of Clark County, Washington has teamed up with local schools to operate a learning centre for children and youth who are experiencing homelessness. The learning centre provides...

A Grand Canyon University Viewpoint On The Special Ed Needs of Poor Children

For American's students with physical and/or mental handicaps, their need, as well as their right, to forms of special educational support have been long established. Not so, unfortunately, for...

Tacoma Looks To Solve A Student Housing Crisis — If Landlords Cooperate

Increasing numbers of college age students are either homeless, or hovering on the edge of it. Tensions over this problem have been rising in American institutions of higher learning,...

Montréal Students Build DIY Muscle To Create Affordable University Housing

Montréal, Quebec is unusual among Canadian and American cities: it has far more renters than owners. Like many other cities though, the amount of rental housing is not keeping...

Growing U.S. Student Loan Crisis Partly Fuelled By Unaffordable Rental Housing

The growing cost of higher learning in America leaves many graduates crippled by student loan debt throughout young adulthood and, for some, well into middle age. Recognition that this...

High School Students Build . . . Affordable Housing?

Wow! How times change. When I was in high school I was entrusted (barely) with building a wall lamp from aluminum strips, decoration added by precise and delicate hammering...

Indiana ‘Friendship’ Co-Living: Extra Challenge, Extra Reward

The search for housing affordability has recently focused attention on the benefits of co-living.Try: Co-living: What Is It? Who Does It? Why Bother? That co-living involves responsibilities as well...

Students Contribute To The Affordable Housing Crisis. Can Colleges Help Solve The Problem?

To say that students contribute to a housing crisis is not meant to suggest that students are less worthy of affordable housing than others. This does tend to be one...

$$$ College Housing? $$ But Scarce Off-Campus? Student Union Eyes Third Way

These days, college and university students are often burdened by loans necessary to higher education tuition. This financial problem is only growing. That's because, for those without a convenient...

Student Housing Woes: Worthy Of Worry Or Wrong-Headed Whining?

To an American student complaining about unaffordable housing, a sensible college administration might point out that earning a degree can well add an extra million dollars or so to...

Tempe AZ Squanders Affordable Housing To Coddle Wealthy Students

Let's place our housing future in the hands of private enterprise, shall we? Let's all live in a housing industry's pipe dream of what homeowners truly want and deserve. Tempe,...

Canada’s NICE May Need A Naughtier Affordable Housing Project

In the spirit of its 'NICE' acronym, Canada's National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly is embarking on an admirable and extremely ambitious affordable housing initiative. The charitable...

Wuh-up Dawg? Are You a Cool Cat? Intergenerational Homeshare: Dawgs & Cats Living Together

At a recent national mayor's conference in Boston, that city shared some of its current experiments in the creation of more affordable housing. Read more in The Bay State...

Ugly Consequences When Housing For Vulnerable Populations Goes Unregulated

Three unrelated stories point to the importance of regulating or monitoring affordable housing for vulnerable populations. In America, there is a federal requirement that cities and states provide housing and...

Housing Justice Conference Faults ‘Back Door Gentrification’ & University Complicity

A Charlottesville, Virginia Housing Justice Conference identified two indirect but still concerning problems which were driving up housing prices, and driving out seniors of color, including those who own...

Worried You Can’t Get Student Housing? You’re Just One More Whiner With A Bad Attitude

What do you say to a Howard University student who feels she is facing a choice between homelessness or heading elsewhere to school? If you're speaking from the lofty heights...

Affordable Teaching, Unaffordable Learning

Assisting teachers into affordable housing has been considered a necessity for San Mateo Community Colleges in San Mateo, California. But these institutions are becoming aware of a small catch...
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