Kezie Thomas knows what life is like for the 65,000 students in city schools who lived in a homeless shelter at some point last year.

She watched her daughter live through it as they bounced around the shelter system.

“My daughter was like, moved every semester, and it's really messing up her, you know? She's finding it hard to build relationships with friends, you know. She's finding it hard to focus. She is falling asleep because she's tired from the commute, coming home at this hour. After six in the evening and waking up at five in the morning,” she said.

Last school year, 154,000 students were homeless for at least a night. About 65,000 students spent some amount of time living in a city homeless shelter. Another 82,000 were doubled up, sharing someone else’s housing after losing t

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