This story is the first in a series on the connections between housing instability and child welfare. This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship and Fund for Reporting on Child Well-Being.

Homelessness alone is rarely the reason children are removed from their families and placed in the child welfare system throughout the state of Nevada.

Yet in the recent instances where children have been placed in foster care because of homelessness or “inadequate housing,” state and local officials can’t provide firm details as to what made those cases exceptional.

Nevada, like much of the nation, has seen rising homelessness as housing costs have soared.

Whether by compounding the reasons that lead to a child being removed on the front end,

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