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Poll finds high housing cost is barrier to college education in California

November 1, 2017

By Nanette Asimov

The problem with California’s public colleges and universities is not in the quality of their academic offerings-it’s that the schools don’t do enough to help students find affordable places to live, according to a new statewide survey about higher education.

That’s the view of a large majority of Californians-85 percent-who particpated in the Public Policy Institute of California’s annual survey of attitudes on the state’s public higher-education systems.

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