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By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS Amelia Watts, of New York City’s Human Resources Administration, talking to parents outside of a Brooklyn school as part of a program aimed at preventing families from becoming homeless.   Sam Hodgson for The New York Times There were 100,000 homeless students in New York City public schools during the 2015-16 school year, a number equal to the population of Albany. The daunting challenges that creates, both for individual children struggling to learn and for schools trying to improve performance, are laid out in a report to be released on Wednesday by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. If current trends continue, the report’s authors say, one in every seven New York City public school students will be homeless at some point during elementary school. “In every school classroom, that’s two or three kids,” said Anna Shaw-Amoah, principal policy analyst at the institute. “And the challenges are not just about whe...

In This Issue: Taking Back the Front Porch ● Could Public Art Stifle Community Conversation? ● How to Build a Case for Community Development and Affordable Housing ● Will Limited-Equity Co-ops Come Back? ● Also: Resources ● You Said It! ● In Case You Missed It ● Jobs ● More Tuesday, August 15, 2017 In This Issue: Taking Back the Front Porch ● Could Public Art Stifle Community Conversation? ● How to Build a Case for Community Development and Affordable Housing ● Will Limited-Equity Co-ops Come Back? ● Also : Resources ● You Said It! ● In Case You Missed It ● Jobs ● More Taking Back the Front Porch Joyce Fernandes, artist, writer, and cultural wo...