California Board of Directors of California, Korean Jackson, has made a bill, making it easier for some university students in Golden State to live in their cars in parking lots on the campus.
The legislation will apply to five California State University sites (CSU) as well 20 California community colleges (CCC). almost Half a million CCC students suffered from homelessness in 2023 for every report from the California Legislative Office. (Related: Building California is a number of homes with a continued beating with high astronomical rent)
“While the emergency shelter in a vehicle is not perfect, it seems that the student knows that they may have a place for shelter, and he will go a long way to install his health and provide additional time to find a long -term housing solution,” Jackson said in A. hearing Last summer.
Cameron Jones, 26, who is an inventor of the naval warriors who served in Afghanistan, is talking about his living before he slept at a safe site for Los Angeles cars near the Los Angeles Center in Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, February 11, 2019.
Jackson invoiceWhich has cleared the association’s higher education committee along the party’s lines last month, was handed over as a proposal for the housing crisis currently faced by California students. Legislation will require the start of experimental parking programs by July 2025, providing space for homeless university students to stand on the campus and live outside their car.
Instead of having to stay in their car outside the campus where Jackson Argue The program may be not welcome or unsafe, the program seeks to give students a safe location to live outside their cars. Jackson made it known that this is not a solution forever, but rather an immediate response to people who are unable to maintain high rental prices in the state.
The housing crisis is felt by university students all over California; 19 % of students Experienced Displacement and 60 % hair Housing insecurityAccording to the Al -Amal Center and CCC, and about 30 % of students were fully responsible for their housing expenses. During the past decade, students are displaced more 48 %, for the University of California in Los Angeles.
However, the suggestion does not seem to sit well with CCC. Noni Jaribi, Director of Politics and Da`wah at the California Community College Association, conveyed concerns to the legislators during a hearing On the bill last summer. Garipian has included many housing community colleges that already provide students, such as hotel vouchers, rental subsidies and delay programs, with concerns caused by the conversion of the bill on the current colleges programs.
“The creation of a parking program for students during the night will require significant financial and administrative resources to ensure that students have a safe, clean and safe place to sleep at night.” He said. “Unfortunately, these resources are not available.”
However, one school gave her a shot. Long Beach Community College (LBCC), a school that includes more Experimental operation From the proposal in 2022, after discovery that more than 70 of their students were sleeping in their cars.
A safe parking program was presented in LBCC, which cost $ 200,000 to launch and maintain, only for students who have no children or husbands, and students were allowed to stay in the parking structure on the campus seven nights per week between 10 pm and 7 in the morning from Wi-Fi and toilets were provided, and the campus baths were open to students from 6 am to 8 am per day.
The program was running in partnership with Safe Starks La, organized This provides safe positions overnight for those who live in their cars, and security was supervised by the campus police office.
Mike Monos, Chairman of the LBCC Board of Directors, also witnessed housing insecurity throughout the college, and he often had no place to go except for the front seat of his car. Monuz He said Politico said that by 2028 the school will provide 422 beds for housing on the campus, but some students cannot wait until then.
“I know what this feels,” Monuz said to the director. “For us, he was looking at data at that moment and saying:” Hey, we know 70 students with real names and asleeping identity numbers in their cars. “
The Republic of California Vince Fong, is home to Bickesfield College and Bickesfield Community College – Schools can provide parking service overnight under the Jackson bill.
“The proposals to allow university students to sleep in their cars are one of the symptoms of the housing crisis that hurts students and Muslims in California Yi” in dealing with the increasing emergency of housing and homelessness. California does not need more parking lots, we need real solutions that cut the red tape and end the trivial litigation so that we can launch the development of housing and build real surfaces with real beds. “
Jackson, LBCC, CCC and CSU did not immediately respond to the DCNF request for comment.
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