California’s new plan for housing college students

Step 1. Spend tens of millions of dollars on parking facilities at college campuses.

Step 2. Allow students sleep there overnight in their cars:

The bill, AB 302, would require community colleges to grant overnight access to campus parking facilities.

Before the vote, members of the Assembly committee heard from homeless students and their allies who voiced their support, but both legislators and community college representatives also raised concerns over costs and logistics.

Community college students make up nearly two-thirds of California’s undergraduates, and a recent survey found almost 1 in 5 have been homeless in the last year.