What to do with homeless college students? Let them sleep in the parking lot, new bill says.

"California’s housing crisis has left hundreds of thousands of community college students either homeless or facing the threat of being homeless.

A new California State Assembly bill offers a potential remedy — letting students sleep in their vehicles in campus parking lots and structures.

Assembly Bill 302, sponsored by Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, would require the California Community College system to make their college parking system accessible overnight to any enrolled student in good standing. State law already requires that community colleges provide homeless students with access to shower facilities on campus.

‘Over the last two years, I’ve heard from too many students that they don’t have stable housing and often end up sleeping in their cars. Unfortunately, this is all too common throughout California, with one in four community college students experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness,’ Berman said in a statement Wednesday." …

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article225294450.html

Reminds me of the recent TV news story about a California lecturer / professor who lives in her car with her husband.

A sad reality. My husband and I had a friend in our graduate program who was living in his van in the library parking lot because his wife wanted a divorce and the farm they lived on was his wife’s inherited property. He slept in our apartment many times when it got very cold. Eventually he was able to find an apartment to rent that he could afford on our pitiful stipends.