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California Community Colleges conference spotlights student housing, students urge campus-built dorms
Summary
Speakers at a Building for Tomorrow conference at Orange Coast College framed student housing as a basic need, highlighted financing tools such as lease revenue bonds, and featured student testimony — including accounts of couch‑surfing and a student who lived in a car — prompting calls to build on-campus residential halls.
Ronnie Slim, director of affordable student housing at the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, opened the Building for Tomorrow conference at Orange Coast College, saying the gathering would focus on "student housing strategies, innovations, and practice" and thanking the host campus for serving as a model for other colleges.
Chancellor Sonia Christian, in a recorded message, framed housing as essential to student success, saying housing "is not a luxury. It's basic infrastructure like a classroom, a…
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