McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance

Who Qualifies for McKinney-Vento Services?
The term "homeless children and youth" -- (A) means individual who lack a regular, fixed, and adequate nighttime residents; and, (B) includes the following:

• children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to the loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
• are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations;
• are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals 
• children and youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings
• children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings
• migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described above