"Kids don't have truancy problems. They have problems that are causing them to be truant."

Texas has come a long way since being one of the last of two states that treated truancy as a crime. One of its major cities is now leading the charge in preventing the school-to-prison pipeline. Truancy cases have gone from 36,000 cases per year to just 16.  

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• Neighborhood
  Extremely poor neighborhoods have increased by 45% from 2010-14.
  
• Affordability
  More than 50% of cost-burdened households pay more than half of their income for housing.
  
• Quality
  An estimated 4.6M people with asthma in the United States can attribute their condition to dampness and mold exposure in their homes.
• Stability
  Approximately 6,300 people are evicted each day.
  

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