Eligibility

Students that lack fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence may qualify for the KIT Program.  Housing situations may include the following:

• Students who are sharing housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
• Students who are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
• Students who are living in emergency or transitional shelters or where abandoned in hospitals.
• Students that have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.
• Students who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings.
• Migratory children who are living in circumstances described above.
• Students who are not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian and living in one of the situations described above.