The Horatio Alger Association has begun extending its support to help college students cover basic needs such as housing. It spotlights the growing difficultly many disadvantaged students face completing their higher education as housing costs balloon.
, covering 2020, found that 3 out of 5 of the nearly 200,000 students surveyed struggled with food, housing or bills.The percentage of students facing housing issues also rose. According to the report, 43 percent of four-year students experienced housing insecurity in 2020, up from 35 percent in 2019. At both four- and two-year colleges, 14 percent of students said they experienced homelessness — the first time in the survey’s history that both groups were facing the same level of homelessness.
Even among students who have their housing covered by Horatio Alger and other scholarships, the prospect of stable housing is still important. Others, like Angel Vigil, 19, were facing a choice between work and class. A student at Arizona State University majoring in medical sciences, Vigil spent his childhood shuttling between family and foster homes both in the United States and in Mexico. A serious medical experience during that time pushed him to want to become a surgeon.But Vigil’s need to pay for housing meant he had to clock in regularly for shifts behind a grocery store’s meat counter his freshman year.
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