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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.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or we could just put them in the millions of empty homes and apartments we have in this nation...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look, the money we would give our students is going towards a new football stadium okay? We're sorry, there's just no money for new dorms or anything.

(Actually what happened on my campus. My tuition went to a new football not even stadium but tail gating entrance area, so out of town non students could come in and drink while I lived in moldy apartments. Grand total was something like 300 million)

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oooo, this is so close to my college experience. There was a vote on funding a new stadium (for a God awful football team). The student vote failed spectacularly, and we all breathed a sigh of relief that millions weren't going to be spent. We desperately needed additional parking (to clarify for car haters, it was a commuter school, the student population was larger than the city population). Paying a couple hundred bucks (back then) a semester to park, and not having a spot to park was awful and led to many late arrivals to class.

The student government body said lol and passed it anyway. So a new stadium was built, the old one torn down, and 25 FUCKING YEARS LATER there is still not one additional parking spot.

While I don't like parking, I'll say that student needs should take massive precedence over football needs. Absolutely insane that they can take student money and put it there. They view students as "We'll always have them" but that they have to keep wowing people to come buy hot dogs. Absolutely infuriating. I also resent the fans of the football teams too, because they think they are supporting the college when really supporting the college would be not going to sporting events in protest.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You will sleep in the pod and eat bugs, and we love it!

We did it, we solved it forever

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know a lot of the comments are poopooing this idea but frankly I'm behind anything that normalizes sleeping in your cars again. That's something that you should obviously be allowed to do and it's weird that so many places don't allow it.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, of course you are the only one to downvote this njm.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And im hardly shocked at the idea that you of all people want to put further hardships on the poor and disenfranchised.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, praise the orphan crushing machine! Papa Stalin would be proud of you njm.

Normalise sleeping in a bloody bed in a house, the poor and disenfranchised deserve more than sleeping in a car you reactionary contrarian dreg.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the best way to put them in those beds in a house is to continue making homelessness illegal? That's interesting. Wouldn't want them being an eyesore though right? You and Gavin Newsome can't wait to sweep them all up? What kind of beds are you thinking about here exactly? Prison beds? Forced labor?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're arguing a strawman.

No where in here is anyone talking about making homelessness illegal. Stop being dishonest.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are literally here arguing that allowing people to sleep in their cars shouldn't be allowed.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

No I’m not.