By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org Twenty-year-old Mikayla Foreman knows her experience is meaningful. Dealing with homelessness since 18 and currently living in a shelter, Foreman has managed to continue her academic journey, studying for exams last month in hopes of attaining a nursing degree. But Foreman believes there were intervention points that could’ve prevented her from experiencing homelessness in the first place. “If someone in school had understood what I was going through, things could’ve been very different,” she said in an interview with Stateline. As more cities impose bans, fines or jail time for adults living on the streets, young people who have been homeless say they face...
