It is a very tragic cause by how many people are becoming homeless, just by becoming a college student. There are very many different reason why, and some of them are costs of books or low income from jobs. 1 in every 10 college students are homeless, and 1 in 4 don’t have a meal for the night. To begin with, people don’t think that you can afford college, then you should be able to own a house. However, lately prices have rose and they cant afford everything. Others also believe a couch, car, another persons house, is a place to live but your still defined as homeless. In the present, college prices for books, rent, etc. just keep accelerating. This makes it so much harder to afford other necessities such as food, water, clothes, etc. Due to expensive colleges, there are higher rates of homeless students. For instance, San Francisco housing costs rise because there’s not much availability, so many people cannot afford housing there. That is one of the main reason why San Francisco is one of the more known areas for being homeless. Stud
y shows, that community college students are 14% homeless and starve. More than 33,000 students at 70 community colleges in 24 states are homeless. In regular colleges 32,000 applicants are known for unaccompanied homeless youth. Robert Ovetz says, …students who don’t have the ability to earn anything close to a living wage and so they’re not going to be able to afford housing and if they going to be inferior. This means that if they cannot even earn a living wage they are not going to be able to afford almost anything, and they have to keep paying college and all the supplies. Ray Franke states, If you look at the long term trend, college tuition has been rising almost six percent above the rate of inflation. This proves that the colleges just keeping making prices rise more and more, which makes people struggle to pay it off. Overall, this shows that there are so many reason why college students become homeless. Sometimes, it’s even because of the college when they raise the price for everything the students are required to have/pay.