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by Rebelgecko
1692 days ago
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Maybe someone else will have more luck than me but this seems kinda odd. The linked UCLA study didn't find those things directly. It's just (mis?)quoting other studies. For example, the stat about "1 in 5 community college students" is attributed to "Wood, J. L., Harris III, F., & Delgado, N. R. (2016). Struggling to survive—Striving to succeed: Food and housing
insecurities in community college." From reading their paper, Wood & friends didn't actually find that 20% of community college students were homeless. They found that 1/3 of students had at some point experienced housing insecurity, which is a superset of homelessness. I have no idea where the 1 in 5 stat comes from. The paper says 32.3%, which includes students who are not just homeless but also subjected to "Unfordable (sic) housing, poor housing quality, crowding, and frequent moves". These things are obviously bad, but still way better than being homeless- it seems misleading to lump them together (unless I'm missing something?) |
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