{"id":98356,"date":"2026-05-12T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98356"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:56:54","slug":"a-lifeline-or-dystopian-schools-open-parking-lots-for-homeless-students-and-families-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/05\/12\/a-lifeline-or-dystopian-schools-open-parking-lots-for-homeless-students-and-families-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"A lifeline or \u2018dystopian\u2019?: Schools open parking lots for homeless students and families [Morton]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/school-parking-lots-for-homeless-students-and-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A lifeline or \u2018dystopian\u2019?: Schools open parking lots for homeless students and families<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Neal Morton<br \/>\n<em>As family homelessness hits record highs, a few school districts are beginning to offer parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night. Some families prefer the option over emergency shelters<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Family homelessness hit a record high in 2024, as the end of federal pandemic assistance and rising inflation pushed more families with children and unaccompanied youth out of their homes. A sluggish labor market and high housing costs have further strained family budgets. And now, as the number and visibility of unhoused families continue to climb, a handful of school districts are considering their parking lots as a way to shelter homeless students and their families.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe model is now spreading beyond California. In Ohio, the Cincinnati school district later this spring will open its first safe parking lot for families at a downtown elementary school. The\u00a0teachers union\u00a0for Fayette County Public Schools, in neighboring Kentucky, has asked its school board to follow Cincinnati\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifeline or \u2018dystopian\u2019?: Schools open parking lots for homeless students and families &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Neal Morton As family homelessness hits record highs, a few school districts are beginning to offer parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night. Some families prefer the option over emergency shelters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,343,211,46,560,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-funding-grants","category-k-12-related","category-parents-guardians","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98358,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98356\/revisions\/98358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}