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A lifeline or ‘dystopian’?: Schools open parking lots for homeless students and families

SAN DIEGO — As an 8-year-old boy steered his bicycle in figure eights, his mother piled three plates with pizza and pineapple slices from an outdoor kitchen shared with more than a dozen other families who call this parking lot home. She carried the plates past her family’s sedan — their last asset

By The Hechinger Report

A lifeline or ‘dystopian’?: Schools open parking lots for homeless students and families

SAN DIEGO — As an 8-year-old boy steered his bicycle in figure eights, his mother piled three plates with pizza and pineapple slices from an outdoor kitchen shared with more than a dozen other families who call this parking lot home

She carried the plates past her family’s sedan — their last asset