Question on homelessness

This blog post isn’t so much about the news or a personal story its more of a question and an observation of one of my friends living situation. So I know we talk about in class about what the definition of homelessness is and i was wondering if this specific story or living situation is considered a type of homelessness. So my friend currently is in college at this university and he was living in an off campus house and his lease ended so he was forced to move out and he had no were to go so some of his friends let him stay in their dorm room on a futon that he had and he brought into the room and they are letting him live there for the semester because he does not want to have to sign another lease and he does not have the money to afford a new place on his own. so my final and overall question is based on our description and definition of homelessness that we have gone over in class and done in our reading would this considered a type of homelessness or what i know its not a permanent place he is staying at but it is a place that he has his own bed and his own section in the room with two other males so i was just wondering what would this be considered as.

One thought on “Question on homelessness

  1. Yes, this counts as homelessness. Not by the HUD definition of street homelessness, though it is certainly unstable housing, but according to the McKinney-Vento Act definition, which is the one used by schools.

Comments are closed.