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- an individual who lacks a regular nighttime residence or whose primary nighttime residence is a temporary public or private shelter or a place not designed for "regular sleeping accommodation for human beings."

>> SOURCE: Federal Definition of Homeless, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth - "the voice and social conscience for the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness."
National Coalition of Homeless - "works to empower homeless people, whose voices are essential to the public policy debate."
Service-learning resources on homelessness from Learn and Serve America's National Service Learning Clearinghouse.

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