Five districts will share $2.24 million in state grants to explore the feasibility of providing student housing
Without a place to sleep and shower, Southwestern College student Jonathan Renteria decided last year it was best to change his major.
“I met a lot of homeless students even though they didn’t look like it,” he said. “They knew I was, too. There was no need to explain; it was just like code.”Renteria was lucky. He now lives at an El Cajon home where he works as a caretaker. His experience is not unique. Last month, the California Department of Finance awarded the county’s five community college districts — Grossmont , MiraCosta , Palomar , San Diego and Southwestern — $2.24 million in planning grants to explore the feasibility of building student housing.
Even with federal stimulus funding earmarked for higher education, “community colleges received significantly less support than four-year colleges, and students who were claimed as dependents were ineligible for CARES stimulus checks, even if they earned income and filed a tax return,” the“All higher education has been impacted , but none of them as drastically as us because we serve the most vulnerable student populations,” said Cortez.
MiraCosta College officials said they will use the funding to identify a suitable site based on student needs and available commercial space, a task they estimate will take between four to six months. Southwestern College wants to build housing on or near its four campuses, according to its 2018 Facilities Master Plan.
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