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Introduced December 9, 2025 by Angela Deneece Alsobrooks · Last progress December 9, 2025
The resolution increases identification and awareness of youth and family homelessness — potentially improving targeted health and social supports — but may raise expectations and administrative burdens without providing dedicated resources.
Children-youth experiencing homelessness: more likely to be identified and counted, enabling targeted program support and resources for students and families.
Students and homeless children: greater recognition of higher infant health risks and youth mental-health crises could prompt increased health and behavioral supports from schools and providers.
Children-youth, parents-families, and schools: heightened governmental awareness could mobilize expanded funding or policy attention for programs addressing youth and family homelessness.
Students, parents-families, and public schools: raising awareness without committing new resources may create unmet expectations and strain already-limited local services.
Public schools and the Department of Housing and Urban Development: emphasis on increased counts may impose short-term administrative burdens for data collection and reporting.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expresses congressional findings about the scope, causes, and harms of child, youth, and family homelessness in the United States and calls for heightened awareness and support for effective programs. It lists recent statistics on numbers of homeless children and youth, shelter use, health and education harms, links to foster care and juvenile justice transitions, and the multifactorial nature of the problem.