Housing is becoming increasingly inaccessible and unaffordable for students in California. A majority of higher education students in California are rent-burdened and thousands of students experience homelessness each year. Public universities across the state provide a limited number of on-campus beds, forcing the vast majority of students to compete for housing off-campus.

 

The Student HOMES Coalition’s CA's Student Housing Crisis: An Analysis of Student Housing Costs and Constraints in California report aims to establish the true cost of living in campus communities and understand why those costs remain so high, despite a growing recognition of the need for more student housing.