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.
More like, fuck the system that necessitates everyone having to buy a car, causing the cities to require buildings be built too far from each other to safely walk, providing no reasonable space to house the students.
I didn’t criticize the college, I was criticizing the system that makes housing prohibitively expensive and out of reach for students. Nowhere did I say that’s the responsibility of the college itself.
Because it’s always been assumed the local students have homes, usually with their parents or because they have jobs and apartments. But even job doesn’t equal being able to rent anymore, plus kids get thrown out for being LGBTQ+, or their parents are unable to house them because of their own poverty. Community college fees are relatively low, but still a stretch for these students, who are trying to get a foothold out of the bucket.
Well obviously any community college is chronically underfunded to start with, and this is something rather than nothing. The criticism belongs with the communitysociety as a whole, for making it impossible to find an affordable place to live. There’s undoubtedly plenty of empty luxury housing within a reasonable distance
psst, don’t let you understand of economic reality get in the way of someone’s irrational rage.
if community colleges had dorms they would rapidly become non-affordable. the reason they are affordable is they are so minimalist in terms of amenities and services.
and this is why so much ‘left’ policy fails… because it works from an idealism that has no material limits, and often causes the exacerbates the very issues it aims to solve. like being tolerant of homelessness and watching the homeless problem grow, rather than trying to address the material problem that causes homelessness. because the former is easy, and scores points with the left voter base… but eventually bites them in the ass when the liberal voters get pissed off at people shooting up drugs in front of their kids which they now have to witness. then suddenly pro-tolerance stance becomes ‘get these people off the streets’.
More like, fuck the system that necessitates everyone having to buy a car, causing the cities to require buildings be built too far from each other to safely walk, providing no reasonable space to house the students.
Community colleges don’t typically house students.
I didn’t criticize the college, I was criticizing the system that makes housing prohibitively expensive and out of reach for students. Nowhere did I say that’s the responsibility of the college itself.
Because it’s always been assumed the local students have homes, usually with their parents or because they have jobs and apartments. But even job doesn’t equal being able to rent anymore, plus kids get thrown out for being LGBTQ+, or their parents are unable to house them because of their own poverty. Community college fees are relatively low, but still a stretch for these students, who are trying to get a foothold out of the bucket.
Right, but criticizing a community college for not having infrastructure that they usually don’t have is dumb.
This school went out of their way to help the students who needed it. The fact that students need it isn’t the college’s fault.
Well obviously any community college is chronically underfunded to start with, and this is something rather than nothing. The criticism belongs with the
communitysociety as a whole, for making it impossible to find an affordable place to live. There’s undoubtedly plenty of empty luxury housing within a reasonable distancepsst, don’t let you understand of economic reality get in the way of someone’s irrational rage.
if community colleges had dorms they would rapidly become non-affordable. the reason they are affordable is they are so minimalist in terms of amenities and services.
and this is why so much ‘left’ policy fails… because it works from an idealism that has no material limits, and often causes the exacerbates the very issues it aims to solve. like being tolerant of homelessness and watching the homeless problem grow, rather than trying to address the material problem that causes homelessness. because the former is easy, and scores points with the left voter base… but eventually bites them in the ass when the liberal voters get pissed off at people shooting up drugs in front of their kids which they now have to witness. then suddenly pro-tolerance stance becomes ‘get these people off the streets’.
Yes, but also, fuck cars
That’s right! These colleges should be providing buses and train cars for these kids to sleep in !
Or, instead of wasting ridiculous amount of money on car shit, perhaps they could build more housing?
Fuck cars
It’s a community college, they don’t have land or money for housing. This is them doing SOMETHING because the community doesn’t.
Clearly, they could benefit from a robust public transit system. As could we all.
Fuck cars