I think we should acknowledge that a lot of student debt comes from housing costs. To me that always seems like the elephant in the room that nobody ever talks about when discussing college.
Yeah maybe that college is finding a way to cover your tuition. How are you affording to stay in the dorms? Yeah you got a free ride to Harvard. How are you gonna afford to live in Cambridge though? The answer is either you also have a full time job or take out loans. Super rich people just straight up buy apartments for their little darlings.
That’s actually part of the attraction of living in a fraternity or sorority. If there’s 50 people to a house the rent is gonna be cheaper.
But anyways, the student loan crisis doesn’t start and end with free tuition. Higher wages, ubi, and affordable housing are also part of the solution.
This is very important. I live in a country where tuition is free and students have special student housing that's way cheaper than the regular rents around the city(I pay like 3x less because of this) which makes the financial load of going to college a lot lighter. So yes, cheap housing makes a huge difference, it can be done and I wish everyone had cheap(or free) housing!! That should be the bare minimum if the goal was to actually get more educated people and not to mske money off people in every possible way.




















