This is an anecdote, not data, but my wife spent six months of her time in high school living in the park. This wasn't in sunny California - she still has some

This is an anecdote, not data, but my wife spent six months of her time in high school living in the park. This wasn't in sunny California - she still has some medical problems from sleeping in the snow. Also, her pre-school aged step brother was also living under the same conditions. To answer the obvious questions to follow, the family did try the two homeless shelters. The government ran homeless shelter was quickly abandoned, as it was a haven for rape. There was a non-profit, privately ran homeless shelter for women which did not have the same level of trouble, but they turned my mother-in-law away because she would not convert to their religious beliefs. I'm not doing reporting this as some sort of pity party. My mother-in-law is a terrible human being and she made many poor decisions that resulted in her being in this situation. I just wanted to make it clear that five weeks on a bus is in no way an outlier among those 1.6 million homeless children.