Of the 9,660 students in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, about 20 percent are defined as homeless. That doesn’t mean they are unhoused, necessarily – some students and their
“The hope is that we won’t need this forever and we will be able to provide access and connections to more stable housing for these families,” said the district's superintendent PK Diffenbaugh. “But unfortunately we have a number of families who are currently unhoused and until we are able to provide more affordable housing as a community, I fear that’s going to be the norm for the foreseeable future.”