Key takeaways:
- Students with disabilities are more likely to experience homelessness than peers without disabilities.
- Researchers expect increased rates of homelessness due to economic issues exacerbated by the pandemic.
In the United States, students with disabilities are more likely to experience homelessness than peers without disabilities, but insufficient reporting practices make the full scope of the problem unclear, according to researchers.
“Housing insecurity is a major issue in the U.S. that was brought closer to the forefront because of the COVID‐19 pandemic,” Eric Rubenstein, Phd, ScM, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health, told Healio. “We were interested in whether students with disabilities were more likely to experience homelessness.”