This housing program keeps California college students off the streets and in the classroom

Presley Wilson’s priorities shifted from college to finding a new home after she got booted from her studio apartment in the middle of her first semester at Cal State Long Beach.

Homelessness loomed for the transfer student when her financial aid package arrived too late to keep her from falling behind on her rent.

Then, three weeks before she had to leave her apartment, a university case worker located a slot in a state-funded program designed to get students out of homelessness and back on track to earning a degree.