One thing that can reduce the debt burden for college students is to make it illegal for colleges to require that students reside on campus. When I found out that currently something like 85% of colleges force students to pay for their overpriced dormitories and meal plans instead of living at home, I was stunned. This is a grift.
For years, throughout COVID and since then, college administrators tell us that we’re not allowed to punish students for not attending classes. It is okay, on the other hand, to punish them for trying to live in a place that will save them some money.
College dorms should be a place of last resort for students who really can’t find another place to live. They should not be the norm. We have college debt that’s in the trillions. Our political space is infected with the idea that the taxpayers should take over the payment of college loans. In the meantime, excessive amounts of debt are generated through forcing students to live some place where they shouldn’t be living.
There is an easy political solution to this. This practice should simply be made illegal. Even on constitutional grounds, there should be a basis to declare that citizens must be free to choose their own living quarters.
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