More colleges are looking at emergency housing solutions, including have students sleeping in alumni’s homes, napping pods, Airbnbs and even an assisted living facility.
@vsg@technocrit Most don’t have enough for all their students and they’re expensive to live in if they are available. A lot of larger schools are surrounded by outrageously expensive private for-profit student housing complexes built on the ability to overcharge teenagers living off student loans for crappy accommodations without them understanding how badly they’re being ripped off. Meanwhile homeowners near universities lobby to ban affordable rentals to protect their property values.
@vsg@technocrit This has all gotten much worse over the last few decades as state governments have systematically defunded public higher education and tried to “run it like a business” instead of an essential public service at the same time as degrees were becoming more essential to earning a living wage.
Don’t American universities have dorms for the students?
@vsg @technocrit Most don’t have enough for all their students and they’re expensive to live in if they are available. A lot of larger schools are surrounded by outrageously expensive private for-profit student housing complexes built on the ability to overcharge teenagers living off student loans for crappy accommodations without them understanding how badly they’re being ripped off. Meanwhile homeowners near universities lobby to ban affordable rentals to protect their property values.
@vsg @technocrit This has all gotten much worse over the last few decades as state governments have systematically defunded public higher education and tried to “run it like a business” instead of an essential public service at the same time as degrees were becoming more essential to earning a living wage.