Cerritos College opens California's first housing exclusively for homeless students [edsource.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/13/2012:08 PM

By Ashley A. Smith, EdSource, June 12, 2020

More than half of Cerritos College’s 22,000 students are either homeless or struggle to pay their rent and other housing utilities.

That fact was the driving reason why the college, located in Norwalk, south of Los Angeles, opened the state’s first housing project for community college students facing housing insecurity. College officials held the grand opening of the housing development Thursday.

“The homeless crisis in LA is pretty big,” said Jessyca Jimenez, one of five Cerritos students who live in the new housing. There’s a lot of students or even just people who don’t have a home.”

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