Who has to go into debt to attend a reasonable college?

SDSU’s policy is at http://www.sdsu.edu/housing/exemption.aspx .

SDSU’s local service area (whose students are exempt from the frosh on-campus housing requirement) is described at http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/local.html . Looks like you live just barely on the CSUSM side of the local service area boundary.