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California floats plan to allow homeless students to sleep in their cars amid housing crisis | |||
2025-04-26 | |||
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that's not a "plan". That's an admission A Public Policy Institute of California report found California has among the lowest homeownership rates and the most expensive housing in the U.S., with rent about 50% higher than the national median. The California bill seeks to provide a short-term solution to the state's decades-long housing strife. Assemblymember Corey Jackson, a progressive California Democrat with a doctorate in social work,
"This bill confronts a harsh reality to many of our students who are sleeping in their vehicles or other displaced settings as they are unable to find affordable housing, and that's jeopardizing their education," Jackson said. "What I am proposing is practical, immediate relief, overnight parking programs that turn campus lots into safe, temporary havens while the state works on lasting solutions."
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Posted by:Skidmark |
#4 One of the reasons that they don't build more student housing is street scum move in and squat. It happens now. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-26 19:59 |
#3 Whaddabout FEMA? |
Posted by: Bobby 2025-04-26 17:12 |
#2 But formally living in a car is well beyond the pale — how hard can it be to build more college dormitories? TW, This is California we're talking about. If they're lucky and the projected site isn't on the habitat of some obscure endangered slug, it'll still take 5-6 years to get it built. Mike |
Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2025-04-26 15:13 |
#1 California's Broke Medicaid Program Has Been Spending on ... Homeless Housing |
Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-25 10:32 |