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Students 4 Students, a shelter founded by U.C.L.A. students, has housed eight homeless students long term since opening in October. They expect to expand in a few months.

– Louis Tse

A student at LaGuardia Community College recounts his two-year struggle with homelessness, showing a reporter and a photographer where he found shelter.

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College students live on ramen noodles. College students couch-surf. These popular images can obscure more ominous realities: hunger and the little acknowledged problem that some do not have a place to live at all.

Elizabeth A. Harris is an education reporter for The Times covering the New York region.