No roof, no reform: California’s bold but bleak plan to let homeless students sleep in cars
[ad_1] California’s housing crisis has long been a political powder keg, but now it’s turning into an outright humanitarian emergency for the state’s college students. With one in four community college students experiencing homelessness in the past year, the question is no longer how bad the crisis is — but how shamefully long the state can ignore it. Amid rising costs, stalled reforms, and bureaucratic resistance, Assembly Member Corey Jackson has introduced a jarring yet brutally pragmatic solution: Let students sleep in their cars — safely and legally — on campus.Jackson's bill doesn’t romanticize the idea. It doesn’t claim to solve the systemic failures that led to this point. It simply asks: If we can’t yet give students beds, can we at least give them a sanctioned parking spot and a shred of dignity?Stopgap or surrender? The bill that’s making […]