Ca Bill to Provide Parking for Homeless Community College Students in Jeopardy

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A California bill aimed at providing safe parking for homeless community college students is facing challenges, highlighting the difficulties in addressing homelessness among students.

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duxup

3 months ago

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>Jackson’s bill seeks to create secure, overnight parking programs and designated bathroom and shower facilities at the state’s community college system, which is made up of 73 districts that serve 2 million students annually.

This is an interesting approach and while I'm sympathetic ... it feels like it is targeting a very specific problem, that is going to be very costly, and have a very limited impact.

PaulHouleAuthor

3 months ago

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It's that weird kind of California politics that antagonizes the socialist left which would agree with:

   Steve Veres, a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board
   of Trustees, said the district has opposed such bills because it would 
   rather connect students to providers that can offer housing.
   
   “We’re not going to just let them park in a parking lot, we are going
   to give them a room,” said Veres, adding that every student who asks for
   emergency housing will get it.

but it is also giving Fox News content that will portray Democrats in blue states as out of touch and make it harder for Democrats to succeed nationally in this dangerous situation.

duxup

3 months ago

One thing I worry about is how much this program would cost and only help a very targeted subset of homeless. And how much each school has to spend is even going to vary and to accommodate them all you have to overbuild, provide 24/7 security?, that's a lot.

I think of a local school system that have well meaning and program after program heaped on it. Some fit within schools, some are there just because someone thought the school should do that thing.

So they have staff to maintain all these programs, not everyone even knows what is going on with many of these programs. Ultimately the school providing these services school to school is being done by people who are not social workers ... it's landing on clueless administrators, teachers, staff who aren't good at these things. And then each school eats the cost and lessons one by one...

I just don't know that from the community college level if this is an effective way to approach these things.

Then you have the usual problem that once they're out of the school, they're just out.

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