An estimated 1 in 5 of the state’s 2 million community college students are unhoused.
When I first came to California to apply for graduate school in the late ’80s, I drove to Santa Monica and parked my car. There were more homeless people than I’d ever seen, living here in tents on the grass by the ocean under palm trees. Before college, as a result of poverty, I’d slept in my car or in the woods. Then, as a community college student in Arizona, I lived in my car when I was between apartments.
I write and work in publishing in Los Angeles, and when I meet with literary people who attended USC, UCLA or Ivy League schools, I realize that many of them were born into the room I’ve been climbing the ladder to get into all my life. Many have never looked around to see the people who struggled to get here — those of us whose parents didn’t or couldn’t support us through school, those of us who spent nights in our cars because we wanted to go to college and be part of changing the world too.
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