Sleeping in Cars Shouldn’t be Students' Only Option

The Atrociously High Cost of Education and Living in California is Forcing Students to Sleep in Their Cars. Sign Now Dear friends, Students in expensive areas of California are choosing to live in their cars due to the rising cost of education compounded by the heinous cost of living. However, sleeping in your car is illegal in many places, leaving these students vulnerable to criminal charges just for being poor! Now legislators in one area in California are aiming to pass a bill making it legal to sleep in your car. But this completely misses the actual problem: education and housing are too expensive! That's why we are calling on California legislators to focus on the major problem: keeping housing prices down. Will you sign the petition asking California to work towards a solution to the problem of many students being forced to sleep in their cars? People should not have to live in their cars for four years and still graduate with tens of thousands of dollars of student debt in order to get an education. The system is broken, and laws like making living in your car legal totally miss the actual problem. Obviously students (and other people) shouldn't be criminalized for living in their cars if that's the only option available to them. That's just criminalizing poverty, which we do in all kinds of ways in the U.S. So yes, this bill should pass. But it doesn't solve the actual problem. Tell California legislators they must do something to make it possible for people to live indoors AND access education. That shouldn't even have to be said, but apparently it does. Thank you,   Kelsey B. The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. The solution to students' heinous cost of education shouldn't be illegally sleeping in cars. Making this inhumane option legal isn't a solution either. Sign the petition telling California legislators to find a REAL solution today!