NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Last year, 154,000 public school students in New York City were homeless at some point—a record number reflecting the city’s deepening housing crisis.
The figure, released by Advocates for Children of New York on Monday, amounts to about one in seven public school students in the city experiencing homelessness.
To put the number into perspective: The NYC public school system has more homeless students than the number of students in the entire Dallas public school system…