MCKINNEY-VENTO DEFINITION OF HOMELESS 42 U.S.C. § 11434a(2)
The term “homeless children and youth” means...
A. Individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and
adequate nighttime residence; and
B. includes:
i. Children and youths who are sharing the housing of
other persons due to 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 adequate accommodations; are
living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are
abandoned in hospitals;
ii. Children and youths 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;
iii. Children and youths who are living in cars, parks,
public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard
housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings;
iv. Migratory children…who qualify as homeless for the
purposes of this subtitle because the children are
living in circumstances described in clauses (i)
through (iii).