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Ruby Portillo Housing is so expensive in Santa Cruz County that the possibility of homelessness is a genuine fear for me and some of my fellow students at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Without accurate cost of living estimates and sufficient financial aid, I face the risk of dropping out of school due to the lack of affordable housing. As a student at UC Santa Cruz, I’ve often struggled to afford basic needs, such as housing, because of the overwhelming amount of fi...

Commentary: Housing too much of a burden for students Special to CalMatters Housing is so expensive in Santa Cruz County that the possibility of homelessness is a genuine fear for me and some of my fellow students at UC Santa Cruz. Without accurate cost of living estimates and sufficient financial aid, I face the risk of dropping out of school due to the lack of affordable housing. As a student at UC Santa Cruz, I’ve often struggled to afford basic needs, such as housing, because of the overw...

Image via iStock The extent to which California’s unemployment department has failed to address rampant fraud came into clearer focus on Thursday, when the state auditor released her second report of the week on the Employment Development Department. Despite repeated warnings from federal authorities that fraudsters would target California, EDD waited six months and processed 7.4 million claims before it began flagging addresses with unusually high numbers of claims, the audit found. In “th...

Reform Financial Aid For Students So That Housing Is Not An Incredible Burden Patch 1/30/2021 In summary Without sufficient financial aid, I face the risk of dropping out of UC Santa Cruz due to the lack of affordable housing. By Ruby Portillo, Special to CalMatters Ruby Portillo is a student at UC Santa Cruz and a uAspire Student Advocacy Fellow, ruportil@ucsc.edu. Housing is so expensive in Santa Cruz County that the possibility of homelessness is a genuine fear for me and some of my fellow...