How Housing Authorities Can Shape School Outcomes

“McCarver Elementary is located in the low-income (but now gentrifying) Tacoma neighborhood of Hilltop. The school’s turnover rate has historically been extremely high due to homelessness. In 2006, the figure was 179 percent, meaning that each classroom desk had three different students assigned to it over the course of the school year. The situation has improved in the past decade, in part due to the THA program.”