Under the definition in the law, the term “homeless” includes individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, this may include children or youth who are:

• Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing or economic hardship
• Living in a motel/hotel, trailer park, or campgrounds due to lack of alternative accommodations
• Living in emergency or transitional shelters or are awaiting foster care placement 
• Have a primary night time residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, or
• Living in a car, park, public space, abandoned building, or bus or train station

Children who meet the federal definition of homeless will be provided a free appropriate public education in the same manner as all other students of the District.  
 
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