What Does Cross-Sector Data Integration Reveal About Student and Family Homelessness?

• In Event: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Navigating Race, Space, and Place

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to garner a fine-grained understanding of student and family homelessness in a large Mid-Atlantic city. Drawing from a progressive model of data sharing and integration, the study describes noteworthy trends in homeless student identification, public service access and utilization, and spatial patterning. The study is relevant in that it sheds light not only on how student and family-level instances if homelessness emerged in the metropolitan area, but also how wider community systems of practice developed in response – in both urban and, increasingly, suburban spaces. The authors present several implications for leaders, policymakers, and researchers.

Authors

• Peter Michael Miller, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Alexis K. Bourgeois, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Katy Collins