Housing Costs — More Than Tuition — Are Crushing California’s Low-Income College Students
“Attending a university in California can be a financial burden beyond the means of many college hopefuls. Rising tuition is compounded by the lack of affordable housing in the state and the high cost of living. Kahn took her father’s concern as a challenge. So a few years after her dad’s death, Kahn was accepted to UC Berkeley as a junior transfer student, and it felt like fate.”