More than 154,000 thousand students were homeless at some point during the last school year, continuing a decade-long trend and amounting to one in seven public school students.

“This is the tenth year in a row where over 100,000 kids were identified as homeless last school year. This is the first year it was over 150,000 students experiencing homelessness. These numbers obviously are very troubling,” said Jennifer Pringle, project director at Advocates for Children, which compiles the annual data.

Among those students:

65,000 spent time living in homeless shelters

82,000 were doubled up — sharing someone else’s housing after losing their own

7,000 were living in motels, hotels or otherwise without stable housing

“While the city continues to focus on addressing the affordability cris

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