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Living situations for a large enough population will have statistical outliers. The students may not have the means of paying room and board.

balsam 5y ago
From the article: “A UCLA study published late last year found that 1 in 5 California Community College students, 1 in 10 California State University students and 1 in 20 UC University of California students were experiencing homelessness.” http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/ http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/
- panda88888 5y ago
  1 in 20 UC students is really high. UCSD has 31k undergraduate students, and that would mean around 1500 homeless students just at one campus? I wonder if this is a side effect of the high tuition even for in-state students. Edit: correct number of homeless students.
  - moneycantbuy 5y ago
    The study cited says 5% of UC students are homeless vs 20% at the city colleges, so UCSD would be about 1550 students which is still insane.
    - panda88888 5y ago
      Thanks for correcting math. :)
- moneycantbuy 5y ago
  Yeah it’s pretty shocking that ~20% of community college students are some kind of homeless. And particularly shameful when contrasted with the stock market continually hitting all time highs. Not really sure who society is for anymore.
  - andrepd 5y ago
    It's the logical end-result of neoliberalism and putting The Market (swt) on a pedestal as an end goal in itself, rather than a tool and a means to prosperity.
  - zajd 5y ago
    Lol same person it's always been for. If this surprises you at this point you've just been willfully ignorant. Don't worry, it's hn, you're in good company.
- Rebelgecko 5y ago
  Maybe someone else will have more luck than me but this seems kinda odd. The linked UCLA study didn't find those things directly. It's just (mis?)quoting other studies. For example, the stat about "1 in 5 community college students" is attributed to "Wood, J. L., Harris III, F., & Delgado, N. R. (2016). Struggling to survive—Striving to succeed: Food and housing insecurities in community college." From reading their paper, Wood & friends didn't actually find that 20% of community college students were homeless. They found that 1/3 of students had at some point experienced housing insecurity, which is a superset of homelessness. I have no idea where the 1 in 5 stat comes from. The paper says 32.3%, which includes students who are not just homeless but also subjected to "Unfordable (sic) housing, poor housing quality, crowding, and frequent moves". These things are obviously bad, but still way better than being homeless- it seems misleading to lump them together (unless I'm missing something?)

balsam 5y ago

From the article: “A UCLA study published late last year found that 1 in 5 California Community College students, 1 in 10 California State University students and 1 in 20 UC University of California students were experiencing homelessness.” http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/ http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/

panda88888 5y ago
1 in 20 UC students is really high. UCSD has 31k undergraduate students, and that would mean around 1500 homeless students just at one campus? I wonder if this is a side effect of the high tuition even for in-state students. Edit: correct number of homeless students.
- moneycantbuy 5y ago
  The study cited says 5% of UC students are homeless vs 20% at the city colleges, so UCSD would be about 1550 students which is still insane.
  - panda88888 5y ago
    Thanks for correcting math. :)
moneycantbuy 5y ago
Yeah it’s pretty shocking that ~20% of community college students are some kind of homeless. And particularly shameful when contrasted with the stock market continually hitting all time highs. Not really sure who society is for anymore.
- andrepd 5y ago
  It's the logical end-result of neoliberalism and putting The Market (swt) on a pedestal as an end goal in itself, rather than a tool and a means to prosperity.
- zajd 5y ago
  Lol same person it's always been for. If this surprises you at this point you've just been willfully ignorant. Don't worry, it's hn, you're in good company.
Rebelgecko 5y ago
Maybe someone else will have more luck than me but this seems kinda odd. The linked UCLA study didn't find those things directly. It's just (mis?)quoting other studies. For example, the stat about "1 in 5 community college students" is attributed to "Wood, J. L., Harris III, F., & Delgado, N. R. (2016). Struggling to survive—Striving to succeed: Food and housing insecurities in community college." From reading their paper, Wood & friends didn't actually find that 20% of community college students were homeless. They found that 1/3 of students had at some point experienced housing insecurity, which is a superset of homelessness. I have no idea where the 1 in 5 stat comes from. The paper says 32.3%, which includes students who are not just homeless but also subjected to "Unfordable (sic) housing, poor housing quality, crowding, and frequent moves". These things are obviously bad, but still way better than being homeless- it seems misleading to lump them together (unless I'm missing something?)