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This could account for incremental growth in elementary but not the incredibly high rates in HS …

huh? by high school you have the cumulative effect of years of housing instability and so many kids who are then behind in school as a result. Many of them drop out by high school or effectively drop out by never attending. 
Trust me, it's all connected. Ask anyone who actually works in the trenches of social services, day in and day out.

You house people, you will solve about 95% of DC's problems in a generation. It is the #1, 2, 3 concern of almost every DC resident who lives under the poverty line. It's pretty much the only thing I get asked about every day. 
There are the people that you think about as homeless (those who lives in tents) but then an absolute SEA of people who are what we call "marginally housed"----they live with relatives, friends, in unstable rent situations, etc. etc, etc.

DCUM doesn't want to hear about it. No one does. Because it's expensive [b]and it doesn't seem fair (why should I bust my a$$ to pay my mortgage when XYZ gets a $4k housing voucher for free?)[/b]. But it's the root 
of many problems in DC.

Off my soapbox. [/quote]

Yes, it is NOT fair.  What would make it palatable is conditioning receipt of that free housing on mandatory birth control and not producing any more kids.  And conditioning continued receipt of that free housing on making sure the kids you do have get to school and aren't truant.  If your kids are school age, then you have to take job readiness/GED classes during the school day while your kids are in school.  This is not just about housing.  [/quote]

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