Record number of New York City public school students were homeless last year

More than 146,000 students didn’t have a long-term address, a 23% increase from previous year, new report finds

Nearly one in every eight New York City public school students experienced homelessness during the 2023–24 school year, according to a new report published Monday.

New York’s Advocates for Children (AFC), a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring high-quality education to students from low-income backgrounds, found that more than 146,000 students across 32 school districts in the city did not have a long-term physical address – a 23% increase from the prior academic year. The data used for the report came from the state’s department of education.