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.
  • mcv@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    What do you mean “solution”? This is the problem. A symptom of it, at least. A solution would be to provide housing.

    • PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gay
      2·
      3 days ago

      @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.

      • PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gay
        2·
        3 days ago

        @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.

  • diss@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    definitely not saying it would be ideal, but you would think universities could set up sleeping pods at a minimum. some students could use for the term, others could check one out when in need.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    5·
    5 days ago

    Countries (and their citizens) will desperately not vote to tax the rich. It’s the last thing they will do.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I don’t recall ever seeing those options on a voting ballot.

      ☑️Tax the rich

      ☑️Don’t tax the rich

      Have YOU ever seen those options on a voting ballot??

      • vsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        But the “Tax the rich” party supports, you know, those weirdos… /s

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        2·
        4 days ago

        Do you live in a place with direct democracy or have you participated in referendums (like Switzerland)? If not, then why are you surprised the vote was for a party or person didn’t show up with those options? Are you expecting a party of a person to be called “Tax the rich”?

      • pedz@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Not directly but yes, where I live some parties are proposing exactly that.

        At the provincial level, there is Québec Solidaire that plainly says they want to get 30 billion a year from the 4000 richest individuals in the province (in French). They have gained some popularity in the recent years but mainly in urban centres. The general public doesn’t want them as a government because “they are woke socialists with no experience and they will ruin the economy with their pink tinted glasses”.

        At the federal level, there is the NDP that recently proposed a wealth tax. It’s the party that fought and gave Canada universal health care in the 1960ies. They also recently helped us get universal dental care (apparently teeth wasn’t universal in the 60ies). Unfortunately, they also never formed a government as they are “dirty socialists that would surely wreck the economy with their irresponsible ideas like taxing the rich”.

        People in my country and in my province have the option to elect a party that is proposing exactly that. They just don’t because of FUD.