Every morning after waking up in their Kennebunk motel room, Melissa Whitmore loads her two kids into the car and drives them 20 minutes north to school in Biddeford.⁠ ⁠ Nothing about the situation is ideal – a family of four in a single hotel room, the stress of looking for an apartment in the midst of a housing crisis, the daily drive – but Whitmore knows it would be even worse if they hadn’t been able to rent the room after being evicted from an apartment.⁠ ⁠ “I can’t imagine living in a vehicle,” said Whitmore, who recently gave birth to her third child. Soon, five people will be living in the small, bare bones room.⁠ ⁠ Her older kids – a daughter in seventh grade and a son in kindergarten – are among more than 100 homeless students in Biddeford schools this year. Some students sleep in motels, shelters, minivans and tents.⁠ ⁠ Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a 400% increase in the number of homeless students in the Biddeford and Saco school districts an...