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Sacramento, CA – Five Student Homes Coalition bill are on the Governor's Desk. Four of the bills, including AB 1732 (Alvarez and Wicks) aim to address the student housing supply shortage. AB 2766 (Ahrens), will support student basic needs by ensuring homeless and foster youth have equal access to campus housing.
Sacramento, CA – all six of the Student Homes Coalition’s sponsored bills have moved onto their second house. The four supply-side bills – AB 1732, AB 2118, AB 2480, and SB 916 – will all jumpstart development across California’s campuses. AB 2766 and SB 685 will provide much needed relief to students at risk of homelessness.
The Sacramento Bee reports on AB 893 (2025), a Student Homes sponsored bill that expanded and amended AB 2011 (2022). The story focuses on an affordable housing development in El Dorado County that is likely to be approved under the AB 893. The project will bring 128 affordable homes to the region.
A story from EdSource recently provided an overview of several bills sponsored by Student Homes to make it easier to develop affordable student housing across the state. "If you walk around Westwood, you see lots of one-story commercial spaces and restaurants,” said Kate Rodgers, Chair of the Coalition and recent UCLA graduate. “And for a housing nerd like myself, I can’t really help but think, ‘What if this was all mixed use?’”
SACRAMENTO, CA - As of today, Governor Newsom has signed all three pending Student Homes Coalition sponsored bills into law. AB 893, AB 648, and AB 357 will streamline the construction of both on and off-campus student housing, and create new pathways for students to access affordable housing.
The Voice of San Diego explored the impact of AB 357, a Student Homes Coalition sponsored bill to streamline housing at coastal universities, in a recent story. “By returning the power to universities, we’re hoping to prevent delays," said former Student Homes Co-Chair, Ryan Lenney.
A recent story from SFGate discussed the ongoing work to expand safe parking programs in California. "We’ve heard from students who are sleeping in their cars that one of the hardest things is having a police officer come up and bang on their window in the middle of night and tell them to leave, and then have to wake up at 9 in the morning and go to class,” said Ryan Lenney, former Student Homes Co-Chair. “I mean, to try and imagine the mental toll that that takes on a student is impossible.”
Kate Rodgers, Chair of the Student Homes Coalition, recently joined WAHN Podcast host, Angie Truitt, to discuss student housing policy issues in California. "If you delay a student housing project and the university has been required by the state legislature to grow its population... you have an entire new class of incoming freshman that doesn't have housing," said Kate.
Student Homes Coalition Co-Chairs Kate Rodgers and Ryan Lenney recently spoke with Kent He, host of the Affordable Housing and Real Estate Investing Podcast, about the need for more student housing development on and off-campus. "We need more housing units, which is why we are pursing policies like AB 893, which will upzone land around universities. We've talked to university campuses and they want to help their students... we have to give them the tools to do so." said Kate.
Alex Schafran, host of the "Housing After Dark" podcast, recently spoke with Student Homes Coalition Co-Chairs Kate Rodgers and Ryan Lenney about the Coalition's current policy agenda. "When we talk about wanting to expand access to higher education... increasing housing development and trying to decrease housing costs has to be a part of that conversation," said Ryan.
The Daily Californian covered the Student Homes Coalition's 2025 legislative slate reveal, including a quote from the Coalition's Chair Kate Rodgers: "One student living in their car, that’s a tragedy, but thousands is a policy failure. Students from across the state, including those that are behind me today, have been begging for relief from homelessness and housing insecurity."
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