Why $500 million for California’s student housing is ‘a drop in the bucket’
Why $500 million for California’s student housing is ‘a drop in the bucket’
By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters
Free tuition is great, and California excels at that compared with the rest of the country. But with rents sky-high, affordable housing has become the chief expense for most students – and relief is harder to come by.
Lawmakers have a plan for that: They’ve poured $500 million into this year’s state budget so that public colleges and universities can build…