Little work examines the nexus of student homelessness and afterschool provision. This critical ethnographic case study of organizational culture draws from observation, documents, and interviews with youth experiencing homelessness, staff, and volunteers at a community-based afterschool center for youth experiencing homelessness. It explores how the center straddled the discourses and ideologies inherent in both the student homelessness and afterschool terrains. The center built close connections between and amongst youth and staff and fostered wide-ranging community collaborations, which allowed it to connect youth to various resources and offer flexible programming. Yet, it also suffered from contradictions and tensions in its framing of parents, youth, homelessness, and race. These strengths and weaknesses reflected the center's position at the nexus of both homelessness and afterschool. Implications for research, policy, and practice are discussed.