Ja-Quari Moore knows firsthand the difficulties of housing instability for high school students. As a senior in 2011, he found himself “couch hopping” and scrambling to find a place to stay after his mother moved across the country.
“It was just a lot of back and forth, couch hopping and figuring out how many days I can stay here or how long I can stay somewhere else,” Moore said.
Determined to complete his education, Moore decided to remain in Michigan, even without his mother’s support…